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Weekly Report - 29 August 2013 (WR-13-34)

ARGENTINA-URUGUAY: Fernández and Mujica kiss and make up

Months after calling his Argentine counterpart “an old shrew” who was “worse than her one-eyed” late husband, Uruguay’s President José Mujica chose more diplomatic language for President Cristina Fernández’s visit to Montevideo this week. Relations between the two countries have been strained since 2005 due to a long-running dispute over the construction of a pulp mill on the River Uruguay. Though that argument was legally settled in 2010, a recent opinion poll found Fernández to be the least liked regional leader among Uruguayans. The opposition declined to welcome the Argentine president to the capital.

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