Many chose to travel to shop taking advantage of the rise in the blue dollar in the neighboring country, collapsing the border bridges.
long lines of up to seven kilometers of vehicles reported to cross into Argentina On Bridge General San Martin, at the height of Friar Bentos, on a weekend that coincides with the closing of the Winter Break and in the context of a new escalation of the blue dollar in the neighboring country.
Thus, to the winter rest that ends (and that was contemplated for this week at the beginning of the schedule), the exchange difference increasingly important with Argentina, where the parallel market dollar climbed to 522 pesos and the price gap is at least 144%, according to the latest report from the UCU.
As reported by Telemundo, the delays were up to four hours in some cases, at a time when travel motivated by Tuesday holiday, which implies the possibility of long weekend.
A slow start to the holidays
Although no official data was provided, since migrations They admitted that the number of exits is more important than the entrances to the country, something that anticipated the Minister of Tourism, Tabaré Viera, noting that the start of the holidays “it was slow” in the country.
According to Viera, in Colonia “reserves would be at 50%, which speaks of the fact that it is very low in the east” and he noted that this situation occurred in the Daymán hot springs. In addition, he admitted that there were cancellations of Argentine tourists in the framework of the water emergency.
In any case, the authorities expect that during the second fortnight the number of visitors arriving from Argentina and Brazil will increase, coinciding with the beginning of the winter holidays in neighboring countries.
Source: Ambito
