Comments on From Uruguay: The iberoamerica summit

To my mind everybody have to glance at this.

2011-11-10T05:08:12.421-08:00

To my mind everybody have to glance at this.

sure, no problem, you may write to fromuruguay[at]...

2007-01-18T17:46:00.000-08:00

sure, no problem, you may write to fromuruguay[at]gmail.com

Hello Gabo, greetings from Dubai, UAE. I am from ...

2006-11-18T15:41:00.000-08:00

Hello Gabo, greetings from Dubai, UAE. I am from El Salvador and have been living as an expat in the Middle East for a bit more than 3 yrs, 90% of that time working for an IT company.

I started reading your blog, from the intro post to the latest one a few minutes ago, I was searching information about living in UY as I am exploring some job opportunities in the IT industry there, therefore, my wife (Colombian) and I are weighing the pros/cons of moving out of UAE and go back to Latin America. I would like to ask you if it is ok if I send you a few questions in a near future in order to gather some more information.

Thank you and congratulations for a nice blog.

juas! muy fuerte! que raro que no tuvo mas trascen...

2006-11-14T16:43:00.000-08:00

juas! muy fuerte! que raro que no tuvo mas trascendencia ese tipo de incidentes, no?

Hola Gabo, yo estoy lejos, pero lei un pequenio ra...

2006-11-14T01:51:00.000-08:00

Hola Gabo, yo estoy lejos, pero lei un pequenio raconto de la odisea de un chico por llegar a su casa (frente a la Plaza Independencia) en http://www.fotolog.com/maurork/?pid=25029880

Que loco...

^.^

Hi pdf, while I'm conscious that it's politically ...

2006-11-07T17:41:00.000-08:00

Hi pdf, while I'm conscious that it's politically incorrect and unpopular, imho ecology at the cost of starvation, unemployment, insecurity, emigration, etc, is not such a good deal. There has to be a balance.

I respect the concern over ecology that the people of Gualeguaychú show, but I'd like the discussion to be centered on the technical aspects of whether or not the levels of contamination emitted by the proposed technologies can be absorbed in reasonable time by the environment, etc. I've heard that one of the reasons the people of Gualeguaychú give is that they will be able to see the chimeney in the horizon and that will change their landscape, in an unwanted way. I agree with you I feel the people of Gualeguaychu are misguided, and misinformed.

I think Uruguay as a sovereign state is free to build whatever wherever, as long as it doesn't "contaminate". Then we should agree on the definition of what "contamination" is, since the very existence of human beings in one place is source of contamination.

I would have liked (in an ideal world) argentina's attitute to be more of a cooperation with uruguay to enforce the corresponding checks on the installations to ensure the established ecology standards are followed, and the shared resources preserved.

Hi! I'm writing from Rosario, Argentina, and I tho...

2006-11-06T11:06:00.000-08:00

Hi! I'm writing from Rosario, Argentina, and I thought I let you know I referred to a post of yours about the pulp mills, because I'm not entirely sure what I'd like Argentina and Uruguay to do. I'm an ecologically-minded person, and I'm convinced that both countries should strive to have their own industries and make them as clean as possible. I don't think "hypocrisy" is a valid argument in international relations, but Argentina does have very polluting industries (I live not 20 km away from a very fetid paper plant). But I think the guys at Gualeguaychú are just desperate and misguided, and the Argentine government is completely lost on this. I commented on this a few days ago and though you should know because I did disagree with you on something: I think ecology should never be considered a luxury. We are next to nothing in the world -- a lot of land, scarcely populated, only truly civilized in parts, plagued by corruption and poverty; but the land is, so far, rather untouched, and it's all we have to pass on. Feel free to comment back.