The dollar falls in Uruguay and the claims of agricultural producers grow

(From Montevideo, Uruguay) - The price of the dollar in Uruguay fell again this Tuesday and was traded on average in the wholesale market at 37.50 Uruguayan pesos, according to data from the Electronic Stock Exchange (Bevsa). It was its second consecutive fall, which confirms the downward trend of recent weeks. These values generate concern in the agricultural sector, which has long criticized the exchange rate delay. The price of the US currency, the lowest in eight months, generated the reaction of the Rural Federation of Uruguay. In a thread spread on social network X, the union criticized the “eternal return of the exchange rate delay.” The ruralistas shared a graph that shows the evolution of the US currency against the dollar, which shows that during the pandemic the currency was trading at more than 43 Uruguayan pesos and then, with the beginning of the contractionary phase of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU), the trend was downward. The Rural Federation – together with ...