Trouble On Two Fronts

February 2006 | Political Risk Analysis

The government has faced conflicts both within and without its borders in recent weeks. First is the spat with Uruguay over the ongoing construction of two paper and pulp mills on the Uruguayan bank of the Uruguay River - the natural border that divides Uruguay from the Argentine province of Entre Ríos. Local environmentalists (and others) began to demonstrate against the construction of the World Bank-supported foreign investments (the mills are being funded at a cost of US$1.7bn by Finnish company

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