FRAY BENTOS - In the last few years money has been made with raw materials. Lots of money. Everyone was after it to win and sell them or to process them in industry. The result: prices skyrocketed. Those who traded in raw materials became rich while sleeping. That credo applied to companies, and governments too believed in it.

Raf Custers looks at five countries in southern Latin America: Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. They are traditionally suppliers of raw materials. They go along with the trend, they aim for growth. But at the same time they want to step out of the colonial scheme where everything is focused on export, and they look for other ways. There is no shortage of dilemmas and sound choices in that search.

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€7,425 allocated on 29/04/2013
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FPD/2013/1002

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BOOK (in Dutch)

  • Title: De uitverkoop van Zuid-Amerika
    Subtitle: Grondstoffen, burgers en big business
    Author: Raf Custers
    Publisher: EPO
    ISBN: 9789462670686
    Pages: 260
    Price: €23,5

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