And Uruguayans, especially the poorest ones, will suffer a further fall in living standards.Whether Mr Batlle can avoid a default depends in part on how much social unrest he faces.
One of the reminders of the turmoil around the fuel protests was how much of a role popular unrest still plays in Bolivia's fragile democracy.
But the immediate question for progressives is an anxious one: not whether their candidates can drive out the Democratic Party establishment — they haven't — but how much the past few years of unrest have changed the atmosphere within it.
"I think that is more likely, frankly, to lead to social unrest when people find out how much money they're paying in taxes for people to live in houses they couldn't dream of living in themselves".
Mindful of generating further unrest in the run-up to Wednesday, Downing Street said it would only confirm how much the funeral will cost the public once it has taken place.
I see how much harder it is for my fearful survivors to take necessary steps to resolve other layers of emotional unrest.
This is why Hopkins stirs up so much unrest.
