He arrived before independence, industrialized Montevideo, financed governments and expanded his commercial network into the South Atlantic. Lafone embodies the strengths and contradictions of a founding entrepreneur.
Most of today’s wars in the region do not arise from ancient rivalries but from the clash between a vanished imperial order and an artificial system of nation-states created after World War I.
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A layered reading of contemporary geopolitics and the challenge of understanding it in the age of artificial intelligence.
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