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Zorro

(15,740 posts) Mon Nov 23, 2015, 04:51 PM Nov 2015

New Argentine leader rallies Mercosur against Venezuela

Source: AFP

Argentina's president-elect Mauricio Macri said Monday he would call for Venezuela to be suspended from the South American trade bloc Mercosur over its government's alleged rights abuses against political opponents.

"We are going to invoke the democratic clause against Venezuela," Macri told reporters.

That protocol allows a Mercosur member to be suspended with the agreement of all the others if it is seen to have violated democratic principles.

Macri added: "It is appropriate because of the abuses and the persecution of the opposition" in Venezuela, where right-wing rivals of President Nicolas Maduro have been imprisoned and barred from elections.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/argentine-leader-rallies-mercosur-against-venezuela-204035817.html

Now this is gonna get interesting...

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New Argentine leader rallies Mercosur against Venezuela (Original Post) Zorro Nov 2015 OP

Rightists support rightists. n/t Comrade Grumpy Nov 2015 #1

Can you explain your comment please? Perseus Nov 2015 #3

Tides have turned. joshcryer Nov 2015 #5

actually….. cab67 Nov 2015 #2

yeah, the Venezuelan government is an embarrassment to the region nt Bacchus4.0 Nov 2015 #4

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

1. Rightists support rightists. n/t

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 05:25 PM

Nov 2015

Perseus

(4,341 posts)

3. Can you explain your comment please?

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 05:43 PM

Nov 2015

Right now it just looks, to me at least, like you do not know anything about the situation in Venezuela. So, just to have an intelligent conversation it would be useful if you can expand on your comment. Of course, that is only if you want an intelligent conversation about this issue.

"Rightist"??? What does it mean? Are you are calling those imprisoned in Venezuela and Macri rightists?

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)

5. Tides have turned.

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 08:42 PM

Nov 2015

A wasted decade of high commodity prices under socialist governments. Opportunity lost forever.

Hopefully they don't go the Colombia route and select a far right winger.

cab67

(2,993 posts)

2. actually…..

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 05:42 PM

Nov 2015

…having been to both Venezuela and Argentina, I'm with Macri on this one. I don't like his politics, and I think he'll cause a lot of damage to the Argentinian economy, but Maduro (and Chavez before him) are (and were) autocratic nutjobs.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)

4. yeah, the Venezuelan government is an embarrassment to the region nt

Reply to cab67 (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 06:01 PM

Nov 2015

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