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Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

URUGUAY: Switching brothers?

During a public event in London on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the creation of Mercosur, Uruguayan foreign minister Luis Almagro described the Southern Common Market as Latin America's “most serious integration project" and a “brotherhood", where the member states are “more like brothers than neighbours". “The relations we have with Brazil and Argentina are relations we don't have with anyone else in the world", emphasised Almagro. The key problem, however, is that just as in families, older or bigger siblings might bully, or take advantage of, the younger or smaller ones, recent increased tensions with its historically closer sister, Argentina, has left Uruguay more intent on courting the favour of the bigger brother, Brazil.

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