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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)
REGION: Protecting a strategic asset
The openness of the Southern Cone's plains, which attracted millions of immigrants to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in the 19th and 20th centuries, may soon become a luxury to be enjoyed by locals only. With commodity prices at record highs, and food prices expected to maintain, if not increase, their value amid myriad natural disasters, the three countries have moved to control land ownership/exploitation by foreigners. Though all three governments share the same goal – to prevent foreign capital taking control of one of the region's strategic assets, resulting in ‘21st century colonialism', – the strategies they have adopted are markedly different.
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