Tag: Frank Baxter

• Friday, March 11th 2011 - 04:43 UTC

  How Argentina torpedoed Uruguay’s FTA with the US, according to Wikileaks

  

  Although in public former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was supportive of Uruguay’s negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, members of his cabinet warned the US embassy in Buenos Aires that Argentina would block such an initiative in Mercosur, according to the contents of several Wikileaks cables published in Montevideo and Buenos Aires.