MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Uruguay became prisoner of Argentina, when it rejected a free trade accord with the US
Uruguay has fallen prisoner of Mercosur and Argentina because it did not sign the free trade agreement with the United States which was offered to the country in the previous government of Tabare Vazquez, said two-times President Julio Maria Sanguinetti. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCut off your nose and crap like this happens..
Apr 16th, 2012 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0..... and now Uruguay must sink, along with Argentina.
Apr 16th, 2012 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But perhaps they might break away from Mercosur, and do the deal now ..... better late than never.
What a classic tit.
Apr 16th, 2012 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.. oh well, about time to go back to USA on bended knee.
”Beware of Greeks (or the US Government) bearing gifts“. It never works out how you imagined it. Tribute is expected. The previous comments here seem to not understand the long history of ”sweet trade deals“ with the US. Next there will be ”small, inconsequential“ US military bases on the frontier with Brazil, and Monsanto will be taking over the Ministry of Agriculture.
Apr 16th, 2012 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe Uruguay is being appropriately ”careful”.
ry #4
Apr 16th, 2012 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0From what you imply, nobody should do business with firms with a US interest.
Are they really so much worse than those elsewhere around the world, or are they just bigger with higher turnovers?
Uruguay must turn to the Pacific. Has been a lot of time wasted and I wonder how an intelligent country can bet to the past.
Apr 16th, 2012 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Geoff... I am referring to the unstated goals of US empire, and the unexpected demands that have always been placed on countries who want the promised trade. US corporations always win. That cannot be said for the trading “partner”.
Apr 16th, 2012 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ry #7
Apr 17th, 2012 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0I see a HUGE re-orientation of trading partners across most of South America.
China has made a massive re-evaluation in the US of the power-relationships brought about by asymmetric trade.
Chevron realises this wrt its oil contracts in Brasil.
Goals are one thing - reality is something else.
#4 Well put. The title of this article, even if a direct quote from a right wing ex-President, is ridiculous, as Uruguay would have been even more of a “prisoner” if it accepted the deal, just a prisoner of America.
Apr 17th, 2012 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0#3 “about time to go back to USA on bended knee”
Thanks for the honesty, but don't think its going to happen =)
Uruguay put distance between yourself and Argentina you will
Apr 18th, 2012 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0appreciate it in the future.......
@9 - It's hardly fair to call Sanguinetti right wing. He has always been a believer and practitioner of democracy, and his civic rights were suspended during the dictatorship. Have you ever spoken out against a dictatorship, knowing the midnight knock on the door will come?
Apr 19th, 2012 - 05:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0@10 - I wish we could. But Argentine is 200 yards away, across the Uruguay river. We have no choice but to be their neighbours. Hopefully, we'll develop alternative markets and learn to rely less and less on them for our exports and tourist trade.
#11 Thankfully as a Brit I've never had to; if I was a British Muslim though I might have been more scared of the state ever since Blair's authoritairian premiership. No I understand this President was a democrat but that doesn't mean I have to accept his economics; Menem also was brutally represssed by the junta in the 70s and I can admire him for surviving that, but it doesn't mean he was right to, say, privatise the oil...
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