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Special Report - Uruguay: Mujica’s unfinished agenda (ISSN 17414474)
MINING: ARATIRÍ PROJECT - Promising huge investment falters and shrinks
It started out, five years ago, promising to be Uruguay’s biggest-ever foreign investment, which would more than double the country’s exports of minerals. Towards the end of Mujica’s term of office it had been downsized and now work seems to have ground to a halt. Though the project had been strongly opposed on environmental grounds, it was the market that caused the turnaround.
- Executive summary
- MINING: ARATIRÍ PROJECT - Promising huge investment falters and shrinks
- INDUSTRY: PULP MILLS - New ‘biggest investment’ & obstruction from Argentina
- INFRASTRUCTURE: PORTS - Deepwater project & battle for Montevideo
- SOCIAL & HEALTH: DRUGS - Placing cannabis production in the hands of the state
- ELECTRICITY - Ups & downs of reshaping the energy matrix
- OVERLAND TRANSPORT - Trying to redress years of neglecting rail and roads
- SECURITY - Homicides down, robberies with violence still rising
- EDUCATION - Gearing up for new ‘national accord’