Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume V, Microfiche Supplement, American Republics

UR–7. Editorial Note

On October 20, 1958, two contracts of sale were signed transferring all of the assets and liabilities of the two U.S. meatpacking plants, Swift and Armour, to a workers’ cooperative known as Establecimientos Frigorificos del Cerro S.A., Uruguayan Army troops, who had been guarding the plants, were withdrawn on October 27, 1958.

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