Uruguay‚ short for República Oriental del Uruguay‚ is the second smallest country in South American‚ located in the southern part of the continent. (Encyclopedia) Uruguay is bordered by Brazil to the north and east‚ Argentina to the west‚ and South Atlantic Ocean in the south. (Where) Uruguay is the smallest Spanish speaking nation in South America. It has a land mass of 176‚220 square kilometers‚ which is slightly smaller than North Dakota. Uruguay is a water- rich country with lakes‚ rivers and
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connection. If we can apply these principles to larger society‚ we may heal some of this division. My life has been a tale of five cultures‚ each playing a part in shaping my definition of true community. The most formative one is Argentina. My Chilean mother fled to Argentina as child to escape the dictator Pinochet. She grew up in Mendoza; a city on the edge of the
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rP os t 9-204-021 REV: MARCH 31‚ 2006 MIHIR A. DESAI Dow Chemical’s Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina op yo On November 10‚ 1995‚ Oscar Vignart‚ vice president of business development for Latin America for Dow Chemical Company (Dow)‚ and Luis Marcer‚ CFO of Dow Química Argentina‚ considered the bidding price on Petroquímica Bahia Blanca S.A. (PBB)‚ which was being privatized by the Argentine government. PBB produced both ethylene and polyethylene. It was part of a petrochemical complex
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The Return by Fernando Sorrentino‚ I thought nothing of it just a weird story‚ but then after doing some research I found out that during the same time and place as in the story‚ 1965-1979 in Argentina‚ UFO sightings were the highest they ever been and so were the number of people disappearing in Argentina. After figuring out this the story makes a little more sense. The story itself has many extensions of conflicts. To me I thought the story was a multi-layered metaphor had irony and almost like
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the new company in order to serve the highly protected car markets of Brazil and Argentina from within. In addition‚ their goal was to create a giant theoretically invincible in the Latin American market. The partners’ strategy was to share the risk of operating in a volatile market and support a wide model range. Soon after the fusion‚ Autolatina market share reached 60% in the Brazilian market and 30% in Argentina. Of German origin‚ Volkswagen was originally founded in 1937‚ with the goal of
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Summary Pope Francis was born in Buenos Aires‚ Argentina‚ on December 17‚ 1936.His birth is Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Jorge was ordained as a priest in December 1969‚ Bergoglio began serving as a Jesuit in the provincial of Argentina in 1973. He became Pope Francis on March 13‚ 2013 because of Pope Benedict’s resignation. Pope Francis was also named the 266th pope of the Catholic Church. Bergoglio‚ the first pope from the Americas.Before his election as pope‚ Jorge served as archbishop of Buenos
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causes of the other financial crisis described in the video‚ including the ones in the loans and savings association‚ oil industry‚ and Argentina The financial crisis in Argentina was caused mostly by increased government spending during the civil war in 1989. The war was the monetary system in Argentina against Britain. The value of the dollar in Argentina fell 140 percent during the time of the war. In order to try and fix this problem banks started selling bonds to the public and the government
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came to power in Venezuela and‚ like dominoes chain reaction‚ one by one countries in Latin America started swerving left. Following Chavez in Venezuela‚ Lula and it’s Worker’s Party came to power in Brazil‚ Nestor Kirchner and Tabare Vasquez in Argentina and Uruguay respectively‚ Evo Morales in Bolivia and Manuel Lopes Obrador in Mexico‚ to name a few. During this rise of the left in Latin America‚ foreign investors became reticent of parking their funds
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written by Alicia Partnoy‚ falls into this genre of testimonial literature in Latin America. In this narrative lies an (fictionalized) account of Partnoy’s own “disappearance” and imprisonment in one of the many clandestine concentration camps in Argentina during the internal Dirty War period (1976-1983). Only able to see through the little peephole between her nose and blindfold‚ Partnoy recounts the day-to-day activities of the concentration camp and the relationships that she made with other prisoners
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society; huge class differences‚ but no real middle class‚ but overall there was no significant change in class divisions‚ and little improvement for women. Politically they changed by establishing a strong central government; socialism had come to Argentina; several reforms; politically nothing had changed majorly. Economic changes were that there was no more encomienda‚ grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants
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