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Uruguay needs to improve infrastructure, “especially roads and port facilities”
Finland's UPM, one of the largest forestry groups in the world, does not intend for the moment to build any new pulp mills in Uruguay, said Jaakko Sarantola, vice president of the cellulose division of the company, who also pointed out that Uruguay needs to improve infrastructure to facilitate logistics. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“Mujica and UPM executives also discussed the importance of education for technically-trained personnel in the fields of engineering and forestry.”
Sep 29th, 2014 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0AND THAT, as the old saying goes is THE problem in Uruguay.
I know quite a few youngsters now and they all want to be accountants or carpenters or mechanics, one wants to be a dentist (his mom is my dentist): why should that be? The answer is clear and the reason this beutiful country is stuck in the mud of taxation, taxation: the past and present governments have missed the opportunity to retrain part of the 600,000 who 'work' for the government into private business and make the country productive.
“The meeting, according to SARANTOLA, focused instead on the need to improve the infrastructure of Uruguay, 'a prerequisite of progress in the development of this industry' ”.
Sep 29th, 2014 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. Sarantola´s delicacy omitted to mention that Uruguay´s roads have been virtually destroyed by the giant trucks carrying eucalyptus trunks whilst “developing this industry”. It also extended to silence who will pay for their rebuilding.
Those timber trucks wouldn't be on the road if the rail system had been upgraded as promised by Mujica
Sep 29th, 2014 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 01) contd (gremlin problems)
Sep 29th, 2014 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Schools are not allowed to focus on the needs of the little industry there is in the country, the system being regimented like France. There are no work experience schemes or ANY trade / industry associations other than unions as far as I can tell.
No one wants to be an engineer, when I ask why the answer is always the same: you have to be really good at school and then go to an American University to take an engineering degree there; the local courses are not good enough to be recognised internationally at professional level. Very few families can afford an American education for their children but at least accountants can get a job dealing with the tax laws, either for the government or for business,
Only when a forward looking non-communist / Marxist government gets in for a few sessions will things ever change: so that means probably never. You cannot blame international countries feeling shy about coming here.
Improving Uruguay's port facilities would be of great use when it comes to providing support services and supplies for the Falklands Oil industry.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0With Argentina sitting that one out, Uruguay stands a good chance of capturing several years of lucrative contracts, not to mention the spinoff of tourism as oil personnel look for somewhere nearby for holidays and spending their big pay packets.
What an opportunity for Uruguay!!!
@ 5 Troy Tempest
Sep 30th, 2014 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So true.
Pity we have frightened commie murdering bastards in the government who shit themselves each time TMBOA opens her 'mouth' (more like a sewer).
The new guy might be much of the same or perhaps a bit more independent, let's hope so anyway.
There are ships going to and fro now but clandestinely so as not to start the harpy wailing again.
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Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0and Chilé does not have to do it clandestinely. They are free to exploit this opportunity as soon as it presents itself.
What's Argentina going to do, stamp their feet?
All their influence and stature has been pissed away.
The tables have turned, Brazil and Uruguay are sucking up to Chilé now, to join the Pacific Alliance.
Mercosur serves only the failed states, Argentina and Venezuela.
Pablo-Nino might join CFK in her potent wailing.
@6 ChrisR
Oct 01st, 2014 - 05:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Pity we have frightened commie murdering bastards in the government...”
A rather dismaying picture, if we remember that those commendable people are there because of the decision of more than half of the electorate, and on the SECOND Frente Amplio´s governmental experience . Even now, it´s not possible to discard the possibility of a third one. A disconcerting obduracy, right?
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Oct 01st, 2014 - 06:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry,
that's “IMpotent wailing”
@ 8 Argenfellow
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Less than 3,000 Tupas rebelled against a democratically elected government basically because 'they didn't like it'.
At the end of their failed campaign they had NO support from the people of Uruguay and many of them had run away to other countries too frightened to face the results of their actions AND because of their actions the Military came to power.
The people voting now are another generation and frankly, naive. I have spoken to quite a few who voted for 'No Money Pepe' because 'he was like them' and were miffed when I pointed out that he wasn’t at all like them: they had finished school and gone on to university and held down good jobs NOT killed people or robbed banks. Ask the people who went through it and were jailed for no reason other than an out of control military and see if they agree with you brought a long silence while they thought about it.
But you are an argie whose country is way out of lawful control: you would post rubbish like that wouldn't you?
Tell me, do you actually live in Argentina, I suspect that you do not?
@10 ChrisR
Oct 01st, 2014 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, on your last question. I live now in Argentina, as I have always done, with a few brief holiday visits to foreign countries. But I´m afraid I can´t understand you. With the sole exception of the word “commendable”, that intended to be funny (of course..!), my words must be taken “in modo recto”. I do grasp that as an overwhelming reaction against a military regime, the first (Dr. Vázquez) Frente Amplio´s regime could have been warmly welcomed. But after the SECOND Mujica´s one (and YOU judge it in no uncertain terms..!), isn´t it at least disconcerting that the possibility of a third one can´t be excluded, in view of the last five years excoriating experiences, suffered by all uruguayans..? . “Enigma” tantamounts “rubbish” for you...? . My country, besides, if “out of lawful control” doesn´t massacre women and children with drones and napalm. Finally, your Argiefobia may be, indeed, an interesting chapter of a psychiatrical record, but I´m not qualified to write it. Best wishes!
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