🇦🇷 Two presidents, one pipeline

Argentina and Brazil were not always friends. As South America's largest economies and political heavyweights, each spent much of the 20th century trying to dominate the continent, and the rivalry flared periodically. Then came the 1985 Declaration of Iguaçu. Brasília and Buenos Aires set aside their differences and began co-championing the regional integration that would produce Mercosur…

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