VisualPolitik EN published this video item, entitled “The problem with DROUGHT in BRAZIL, ARGENTINA and PARAGUAY – VisualPolitik EN” – below is their description.
Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay are suffering their worst drought in nearly a century. This has catastrophic consequences not only for agriculture and daily water consumption. The economies of these three countries depend heavily on their rivers. More specifically the Paraná River.
The Paraná River is one of the largest waterways in the world. Most Argentine and Paraguayan exports travel along this river. It is also the main source of electricity generation.
In other words, we are talking about a full-blown ecological and economic crisis. The question is, just how big is this catastrophe and could it really have long-term political consequences? In this video we tell you.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation by area.
Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Brazil is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas, as well as the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.
Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. Brazil is classified as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank and a newly industrialized country.
Paraguay is a landlocked country between Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia, home to large swaths of swampland, subtropical forest and chaco, wildernesses comprising savanna and scrubland. The capital, Asunción, on the banks of the Paraguay River, is home to the grand Government Palace and the Museo del Barro, displaying pre-Columbian ceramics and ñandutí lacework, the latter available in many shops.
