Mercopress
Mercopress
About MercoPress
MERCOPRESS is a news agency concentrating on Mercosur countries which operates from Montevideo, Uruguay and includes in its area of influence the South Atlantic and insular territories.
MercoPress has been working for over ten years and is the result of the initiative of several independent journalists of the region interested in taking advantage of favourable circumstances and in joining in the integration effort.
From an information point of view Montevideo has a double advantage: it's the administrative headquarters for Mercosur and historically since Spanish Colony times has performed as the great port of access to the South Atlantic and the vast marine and mineral resources of an area locked by Africa, America and Antarctica.
With this purpose in mind MercoPress offers an update of the main events which model the integration process, its influence on the main actors of the region as well as the relations with other economic-political spaces. Particular attention is given to developments in the South Atlantic.
Mercosur at present is made up of the four founding countries from 1991, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and as of this year Venezuela. Chile and Bolivia are associate members. Besides, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia have expressed their desire to join the group but are to a certain extent limited by their own Andean Nations Community. Mexico has also expressed an interest.
Mercosur as a group has ongoing trade and cooperation negotiations with the European Union, and less advanced with China, India, and South Africa
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