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This initiative, led by a movement* of peoples concerned about the leonine agreement between the Uruguayan Executive Goverment and the UPM transnational company to facilitate the installation of a second UPM pulp mill in Uruguay (the third one in the country), not only questions the agreement but also demands that the Uruguayan government desist of […]

In 2017, the Finnish company UPM signed a contract with the Uruguayan government to establish a third mega pulp mill. The project is subject to exorbitant conditions imposed by the multinational. With barely 17 million hectares of land and a population of just over three million, Uruguay is now home to two mega pulp mills. […]

In the early 1990s, as a result of the Forests Law of 1987, the area covered by tree plantations in Uruguay began to grow rapidly, with rates of expansion sometimes greater than 50,000 hectares annually. In the first years of the decade, transnational corporations did not yet occupy a predominant position in terms of the […]

It was recently reported that the pulp and paper consortium Montes del Plata, a joint venture between Swedish-Finnish forestry giant Stora Enso and the Chilean corporation Arauco, has sold 45,000 hectares of land in the departments of Tacuarembó and Rivera, most of it covered by tree plantations, to the U.S. investment management firm GMO. (1) […]

Some 20,000 people participated in the 4th National March in Defence of the Land, Water and Life held on May 10, 2013 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The march was organized and promoted by some 40 organizations from around the country, in response to the growing concentration of ownership and foreign control of land in Uruguay, where […]