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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Mercosur summit deepens malaise
The 28th Mercosur summit in Asunción on 19-20 June did nothing to resolve the fundamental disagreements within the trade bloc. Even the meeting's major achievement - a joint development fund to reduce the wealth gap between the haves (Brazil and Argentina) and the have nots (Paraguay and Uruguay) - is being regarded with suspicion.
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