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Uruguay planning a fluvial outpost next to a pulp mill questioned by Argentina
The Ministry of Defence and the Navy share the dream of having a fluvial outpost at the head of the San Martin bridge” which links Uruguay with Argentina, said Uruguayan Defence minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro following a joint forces exercise denominated ‘Turbulent River’ involving land, naval forces and air support. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI think “a fluvial outpost” is the same as a river base... but I'm not entirely sure.
Sep 27th, 2013 - 08:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 In the same way that an entrenching tool is a folding spade. It's one of the joys of any professional body that it deliberately makes its language more complicated than it needs to be to be able to identify and mystify non-members of that profession.
Sep 27th, 2013 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0It has doubtless been this way since Ug picked up his first Inedible Shell Removal System, Nuts, for the use of (aka small rock), and Zog couldn't understand how he'd used it.
Seems like an excellent idea to have a river base. Much increased river patrols to see off argies trying to pollute the river. Constant surveillance and sampling to determine whether pollution is still coming from Gualeguaychú.
Sep 27th, 2013 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think perhaps that 'the fluvial outpost at the head of the San Martin bridge which links Uruguay with Argentina' might be used in the same way that Spain moderate access to Gibraltar. Just to make life awkward enough until their agenda is preferred.
Sep 27th, 2013 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It´s a welcomed base. Not that it can be used as a military base mind you, but to keep in check argentinian hooligans.
Sep 27th, 2013 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if they called it a “fluvial outpost” to kid Argentina that it's not a place to “store guns to shoot at you with”
Sep 27th, 2013 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cruise missile base would be better, permanently targeted at Casa Rosada.
Sep 27th, 2013 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 I wonder how a “fluvial outpost” (river base), specifically referring to “greater patrolling, search-and-rescue operations including protection of the environment”, match up with a bridge and any attempt for it to ”be used in the same way that Spain moderate access to Gibraltar“. Why wouldn't Uruguay simply establish a border control post? On an international bridge over which there is supposed to be ”free movement“. Why did the ”town“ of Gualeguaychú find it necessary to blockade the bridge? When the argentine ”authorities” could simply have blocked access.
Sep 27th, 2013 - 05:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Its a fluvial base because its on a river
Sep 27th, 2013 - 05:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8
Sep 28th, 2013 - 12:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0The “greater patrolling ... ” part do not match with the bridge neither with the uruguayan navy (it's a rather inactive force currently).
There is a border control post already in place at the bridge head, but argentinian holligans were able to intrude nevertheless, i.e. using small boats.
As for the “need” of blockade the bridge, I do not understand it. I heard that some argentinian authorities demanded a “coima”, o “mordida”, to allow the pulp factory, but they were refused. Knowing they were on the wrong side of the law, and being cowards, they choose the “popular protest” fiction (in the hope to fool observers) to block the road. Apparently, they aim to cause enough damage so they are paid.
They blocked the road for several years, day and night. Local police didn't do anything, nor judges.
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