Expo Prado centers the agenda of a good part of the government, with the president’s stellar performance. The countryside, on alert for Minerva-Marfrig. From Brazil, airs of diplomacy. Albisu out.
President Luis Lacalle Pou visit the Expo Prado and businesses in the refrigeration industry are an exclusive topic, although producers do not forget the decline in the dollar. In diplomatic circles there is also talk of Javier Milei (and Lula). Let’s see:
“Is this important?” the official asked a colleague next to him while showing her a statement that had just arrived on his WhatsApp. “I don’t know,” she replied. “Let’s ask the one who is most linked to agricultural issues.” That one saw the message and his eyes were like the golden 2: the message announced the purchase of 16 refrigerators from Marfrig by Minervathree of them in Uruguay. It is the largest business in the recent history of the meat processing industry and has had very strong repercussions on the livestock sector, which reached the Presidency of the Republic itself.
President Luis Lacalle Pou will attend the Expo Prado today, at 10 in the morning. It is an environment that is comfortable, with a lot of closeness. And the meeting to discuss with the directors of the company is traditional. Rural Association of Uruguay (ARU), responsible for the sample. As all presidents have done every year. But the issue of meat processing plants will be exclusive: the vast majority of producers – and, more reservedly, other meat processing plants – have raised a warning about the risks of this large concentration (Minerva would be left with more than 40% of the work). . The president does not have it easy: we must respect – he already said it – the legal framework of the country, which addresses these issues through the Commission for the Promotion and Defense of Competition; But surely in today’s meeting the producers will demand a more political solution.
Lula
While the applause rang out Sodre Youth Choirwho had just performed the hymns at the headquarters of the building mercosurin full celebration of the Independence of Brazilan official commented in the ear and under his breath: “Lula does not want problems with Uruguay, confirmed.” He alluded to another matter that links the Uruguay with Brazil: the obstacles to dairy exports that Brazilian producers have promoted on the understanding that Uruguay exports at prices of dumping. In reality, it is the other way around: Uruguay exports to Brazil at better prices than in the international market, beyond tariffs. The minister Mattos (MGAP) has had to exercise all its negotiating and diplomacy capacity to seek a solution, which – apparently – is being achieved. “Many predicted a complicated relationship between Lacalle and Lula, due to political differences, but the relationship is very good,” said a diplomat while tasting a tasty bite of raw ham.
TO Brazil He is much more concerned about what is happening in Argentinabecause it is bigger and because it is unpredictable: in a few weeks we will have the elections in the neighboring country and Javier Milei, one of the eventual winners, has been very hard on Lula and emphatic in putting Argentina on the western and North American line. For Brazil This is a mess and the least they want, with this panorama, is a conflict with Uruguay. With all these movements, it seems difficult to make concrete progress in the agreement with the European Union. But the sandwiches were delicious.
big jump
“In the end the Front brought down Albisu“, commented a legislator from the coalition – between resigned and calmer – about the outcome of the mixed technical commission chapter of big jump. “It was rather council“, replied a fellow legislator, as they left a business event, alluding to the affirmative vote that those led by Guido Manini Ríos They gave the interpellation proposal of the broad front.
With Albisu’s resignation, the next questioning has lost interest, but it will be done anyway. Already in the evening, a nationalist legislator commented that the position of the members of the party themselves was no less National Party, critical of what Albisu did in Salto Grande. It rains throughout the country and in the north of Brazil; Salto Grande has guaranteed water to deliver electricity and Uruguayan politics will take on more and more tension.
Source: Ambito
