Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2012 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Montevideo and Buenos Aires are geographically so close to each other that when the Argentine administration of President Cristina Fernández appears to be moving away politically from that of President José Mujica, the latter gets on a plane and hops over the River Plate estuary to speak to Fernández in person. In early April Mujica paid an unscheduled visit to the Quinta de Olivos, Fernández’s official residence, amid a regional verbal escalation over Argentina’s increased trade restrictions. Mujica’s visit was intended to bring down the tone of the exchanges after his foreign minister, Luis Almagro, defined Argentina’s trade policy as “schizophrenic”.

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