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Why Is Tether Backing Out of its Projects in Uruguay?

Yohir Akerman December 23, 2025

What makes a $500M crypto-mining investment collapse overnight? Yohir Akerman breaks it down in Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor.

Yohir explains that Tether’s suspension of operations in Uruguay was driven by rising electricity costs and stalled tariff negotiations, not cooling investor sentiment.

A sharp reminder for crypto infrastructures, energy pricing and regulatory certainty matter most. 

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Yohir Akerman

President, Global Investigations + LATAM Region

Yohir Akerman is President of Global Investigations & LATAM Region at Guidepost Solutions. In this role, he helps lead the firm’s Global Investigations practice and oversees Guidepost’s Latin America region, with teams and offices in New York, Miami, Mexico City, and Bogotá, supporting work across the region and beyond.
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