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Special Report - Uruguay: Mujica’s unfinished agenda (ISSN 17414474)
ELECTRICITY - Ups & downs of reshaping the energy matrix
Mujica came to office adding emphasis to a problem that had been worsening over the years: the risk that, as he put it, Uruguay should suffer an ‘infrastructure shock.’ In the area of energy the vulnerability of hydroelectricity had often become all too evident. Improvements — which take time to mature — are under way, but some of them have run into obstacles.
- 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’