Uruguay, country for sale

Changing to soybeans transforms a landscape from fields with a large number of different crops into a monoculture. Also the political landscape in a country can alter and even the ownership of a country can be threatened through the cultivation of soybeans. Such a scenario is happening in Uruguay at this very moment. Uruguay and many other Latin American countries were in crisis at the beginning of this century. Because of this crisis since 2002 one-quarter of Uruguay’s arable land