{"id":366592,"date":"2018-06-24T14:21:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-he-lives-in-uruguay\/"},"modified":"2018-06-24T14:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T13:21:46","slug":"why-he-lives-in-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-he-lives-in-uruguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Why He Lives in Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Doug Casey lives in Uruguay\u2026 but have you ever wondered why?<\/p>\n

Most people don\u2019t know much about the country. So when\u00a0Casey Daily Dispatch<\/em>\u00a0editor Justin Spittler visited Doug at his Uruguayan ranch, he decided to get the scoop\u2026<\/p>\n\n

Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0So, Doug. Why Uruguay?<\/p>\n

Doug:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, Uruguay used to be known as the \u201cSwitzerland of South America.\u201d It once had the most free-market banking and financial infrastructures, and excellent privacy. It was once very desirable from that point of view. All the Latin Americans used it as a tax haven and a money refuge. It still clings to remnants of that reputation.<\/p>\n

Uruguay is also a small country. It is about the size of Missouri. Its population is around 3.5 million people. Small is good, especially when the financial industry is a big part of the local economy. To me, small is attractive\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s quiet and backward. When I first visited in 1980, I thought I was stepping back into the 1930s\u2014I kid you not.<\/p>\n

Geographically, the place is like Julius Caesar\u2019s Gaul. It\u2019s divided into three parts.<\/p>\n

One part is Montevideo, the capital. It\u2019s home to a million people, and the center of economic activity\u2014such as it is. It\u2019s got some upmarket areas, but it\u2019s a dump for the most part.
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Then there\u2019s Punta del Este, a beach resort town. Packed in the \u201cseason,\u201d from Christmas to February 1, but very very quiet the rest of the year. That\u2019s where the rich live.<\/p>\n

Then, the third part, is the endless pampas in the country\u2019s interior\u2014just farmland. There\u2019s really nothing of interest once you leave Punta and the beach resorts. The country is like Kansas with a sea coast.<\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0Doug Casey lives in Uruguay\u2026 but have you ever wondered why? Most people don\u2019t know much about the country. So when\u00a0Casey Daily Dispatch\u00a0editor Justin Spittler visited Doug at his Uruguayan ranch, he decided to get the scoop\u2026 Justin:\u00a0So, Doug. Why Uruguay? Doug:\u00a0Well, Uruguay used to be known as the \u201cSwitzerland of South America.\u201d It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}