Pierpaolo Barbieri: belief

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…What is the economic future for Uruguay, your neighbor? Uruguay has a very good economic future. If you’re on a PPP basis, very successful economy, open, small. You cannot really be closed when you’re that size. It has a great future exporting digital services to the world. I personally believe that that’s what also Argentina should be doing. That’s part of why I did Ualá and started Ualá here, because I think that Argentina needs a digital soy. Argentina has had a very efficient agro-exporting sector since the 1860s and 1870s, which led to its fantastic wealth in 1880 and 1890 and 1900. But it hasn’t reinvented that model. It hasn’t reinvented itself. It still has a fantastically good educational system. It creates a lot of interesting companies and great talent, and so it should be exporting services. I think that’s a little bit of what Uruguay is doing with a more pro-market, pro-world-integration view that is making Uruguay richer every year, more developed every year, and more competitive every year. Will Miami be the tech center of Latin America, or some other place?…

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