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Tension between Brazil and Argentina Permeates Mercosur Summit

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Mercosur summit, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, December 4th and 5th, in Bento Gonçalves in Southern Brazil, also called the "Brazilian Toscana", had everything to be tense, given the uncertainties about the course that the elected presidents of Argentina, leftist Alberto Fernandéz, and Uruguay, right-wing Luis Lacalle Pou, intend to follow within the bloc, under the shadow of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

The Brazilian president never congratulated Fernández, who will take office next Tuesday, solidifying one of the lowest points of the Brazil-Argentina relationship, the traditional axis of Mercosur . . .

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