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Special Report - Uruguay: Mujica’s unfinished agenda (ISSN 17414474)
INFRASTRUCTURE: PORTS - Deepwater project & battle for Montevideo
One of Mujica’s aspirations was to carry out a project that had long been a Uruguayan dream: the building of a deepwater port that would attract large-scale maritime traffic, not only for Uruguay but for other countries of the ‘inner’ Southern Cone. In parallel he pushed for the upgrading of Montevideo’s infrastructure to consolidate it as a hub port — which some considered an alternative rather than a complement to the deepwater port. In this latter pursuit Uruguay found itself in conflict with Argentina’s intentions to build up the capacity of Buenos Aires as an alternative to Montevideo.
- 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’