Gauchos facing cattle in a pen on a farm in Artigas, Uruguay. — Reuters
SANDRA Palleiro is on the hunt for her lost cows. The 60-year-old accountant stands in a muddy field at the end of a farm track in Artigas, in Uruguay’s remote border region with Brazil.
She has travelled 600km from the capital, Montevideo, to find 61 cattle she owns – at least on paper.
