Should Uruguay continue in the Mercosur?
I firmly believe that the Mercosur serves as an integration platform to the world. If we use the bloc to fight against one another then the plan is due for failure. The reason is simple: Argentina and Brazil are two of the worlds closest economies. To illustrate the case, Ireland sells 75% of what it produces abroad and then imports 80% of what it needs, that is to say, it specialized in what is good at, sells it abroad and imports what it needs to consume locally. That allows it to have some scale and diversity which would otherwise be impossible for small countries. Comparing this example to our countries, Argentina exports 10% of what it produces, Brazil 9%, Uruguay 15% and Chile 35%. Then, even in the Latin American concert, our economies are very closed. Despite the efforts made to integrate and open up our trade borders we still have not achieved a global integration that leads us to higher levels of specialized production, scale and diversity that allows us to have a viable grow
