Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 07:51 UTC

Chavez confirms Dilma’s invitation to Mercosur meeting in Rio on July 31

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he had talked with his peer from Brazil Dilma Rousseff who confirmed the invitation to an extraordinary meeting of Mercosur next July 31 in Rio do Janeiro.

“Great news for a new Venezuela and new South America”, said Chavez

“I’ve had a most satisfying chat with President Dilma, our most beloved compañera. She confirmed I’m invited to the Mercosur summit” said Chavez on Friday in his Twitter@chavecadanga.

The message is followed by a second in which he asserts “Venezuela to Mercosur! This is really GREAT! A new Venezuela! A new South America! New Geopolitics!”

Last Tuesday Chavez confirmed he would be travelling to Rio do Janeiro July 31 for the formal incorporation of Venezuela as full member of Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), even when Paraguay was suspended from the group last June following the removal of Fernando Lugo, who was replaced by Federico Lugo.

Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay at the end of last June in a controversial decision agreed to suspend Paraguay and admit the incorporation of Venezuela which was pending for several years and blocked precisely by the Paraguayan Senate. All Mercosur decisions are supposed to be taken by consensus.
 

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1 ChrisR (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 10:57 am Report abuse
”Venezuela to Mercosur! This is really GREAT! A new Venezuela! A new South America! New Geopolitics!”

Be even better when 'Dead Man Walking' looses the 'Walking' bit.

End of the year!
2 Conqueror (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 01:10 pm Report abuse
Inclusion of Venezuela will be ILLEGAL and ILLEGITIMATE. What is the “real” attraction of Venezuela? Chavez has virtually destroyed its economy. CFK is trying to do the same to argieland. Presumably on the basis that peasants (the poor) can't fight back. Mujica is a cypher. A frightened, senile old man. Is Rousseff acting intelligently or being held back by “wiser heads”?
3 JoseAngeldeMonterrey (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 01:18 pm Report abuse
Chavez´s going to invite Dilma and Cristina to join him at his great Aló Presidente shows! They will talk for hours, days and the whole audience will be dressed in red, only red, and they will applaud endlessly.
4 Max (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 01:23 pm Report abuse
The Bolivar Spirit prevails.
5 Marcos Alejandro (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 03:08 pm Report abuse
3 JoseAngeldeMonterrey

Jose, I prefer “Aló Presidente” rather than any Mexican President speech after a few tequilas ..LOL

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvdxPX0XfQ&feature=related
6 yankeeboy (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 04:28 pm Report abuse
I'm going to contact the CIA and see why that cancer they gave him isn't doing the job.
7 Marcos Alejandro (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 04:40 pm Report abuse
6 yankeeboy
You should stop the target shootings in movie theaters instead.
70 peopke shot? Again?
8 British_Kirchnerist (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 04:54 pm Report abuse
This is great news. Like the “beloved companera” bit =)

#1 Chris you may be waiting a long time =)

#2 Mujica is more of a rela man than you

#3 Sounds like a great show =)
9 Conqueror (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 04:59 pm Report abuse
@8 I know. I can't kick his balls off. He doesn't have any!
10 ChrisR (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 06:13 pm Report abuse
Blind_Scottie_Kirchnerist

#1 You may be right, on the other hand when Chavez comes off the immune supercharger which is the steroids he is taking (and he WILL be off them soon) then he will have another problem altogether.
#3 He's taking the piss!

Disaster coming closer for your 'queen' though with all the self-inflicted wounds fast becoming fatal (politically speaking).
11 LightThink (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 06:15 pm Report abuse
His dulcet comments indicates what kind of a twitboy

If he wants to find any moron CIA members,he should look at some Sex parties.

Someone should tell him that there are more than 30 intelligence services like CIA in USA.
12 briton (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 06:49 pm Report abuse
The Alien are here,

The mark at the back of there heads confirm it,

South America is being taken over,
Were ever you are ,,,who ever you are,
Watch out for the body snatchers .lol.
13 Fido Dido (#) Jul 21st, 2012 - 07:59 pm Report abuse
“I can't kick his balls off. He doesn't have any!”

Neither do you. You're a sissy in your mom's basement playing video games. No wonder you're trolling here with your fantasy.
14 Ottona (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 03:16 am Report abuse
“We have to be clear that the only potential enemies we may have at present are the USA, Britain, and their possible allies. Taking advantage of the removal of Paraguay for the inclusion of Venezuela - was a master-move!” Col. ret. Gelio Fregapani, until 2008, Brazil's Director of Combined Intelligence in the Amazon-area states. Published in DEFESANET and his own blog ARCO DE FRONTEIRAS. --- Brazil military and nationalist-conservatives do not subscribe to the socio-economic policies of Venezuala's government - but they see an armed and independent Venezuela as the “first line of defense” for a potential problem with the U.S. and NATO - in future times. Brazil former Defense Minister Nelson Jobim (a conservative) to other defense ministers in South America in 2011: “Our subcontinent will be threated over our resources during the next FIFTY years. We need a ”dissuasive“ capacity against threats from outside our sub-continent!” --------------------------------------------------- With other words - the struggle to keep the U.S. and NATO out of South America and out of the South Atlantic - is a generational struggle which will stretch beyond our time. It is possible that the U.S. may have serious domestic problems after 2016 - due to unsolvable socio-economic differences in U.S. society. Remember, on the ship “Aurora” started the revolution by sailors in Russia 1917. Perhaps the “operation” by “Bat-Man” in “Aurora”/Colorado/USA 2012 - will be seen by future historians as signifcant signal that pointed at future events!
15 Conqueror (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 10:12 am Report abuse
@13 That's not nice. My mother died several years ago in a care home that was very expensive. Nor, as a law enforcement officer, was I ever a “sissy”. I'm happy that I managed to put an adequate number of latinos from LatAm behind bars during my career. Do you need to believe that everyone is a motherless, illegitimate, time-wasting s.o.b. such as yourself in order to justify your use of precious oxygen?
@14 Is that supposed to be a serious comment? Did you read that Brazil has a defence agreement with Britain? Let's be quite clear. If the U.S.A. decided to go south, there is nothing in LatAm to stop it. Just for a start, the US armed forces could put 3,522 ground attack and combat aircraft in the air. I'll leave you to go through the armed forces of the LatAm countries and work out how many similar aircraft they could deploy. Helicopters and UAVs are not counted. Want to go on to naval forces? There are currently 11 aircraft carriers, 22 cruisers, 61 destroyers, 29 frigates, 2 littoral combat ships, 9 amphibious assault ships, 2 amphibious command ships, 9 amphibious transport docks, 12 dock landing ships, 53 attack submarines, 14 ballistic missile submarines, 4 guided missile submarines, 14 mine countermeasures ships, 11 patrol boats. The US Army has a total strength of 1,129,283 personnel together with their equipment and then you can add the 240,827 of the US Marines and their equipment. I reckon that, unless it was being “nice”, the US could roll over LatAm without breaking step. And have enough capability left to tell China and Russia to keep their noses out! Add in NATO forces and it could be all over in a week. There is no “struggle” to keep the US and NATO out of South America. For the most part, neither “want” to be in South America. Leave “our” territories alone and we'll leave you alone. And try reality!
16 DanyBerger (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 10:59 am Report abuse
@ Conqueror

Again drunk mate?
17 yankeeboy (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 01:06 pm Report abuse
14. Wow lots of words that I think were meant to be serious but come on! You are not a very good study of current events or history for that matter.
I hear we are looking at ramping up our Base in Paraguay. I'm sure with the horrible and illegal treatment by Brazil and Argentina they're looking for a little safety of having a large US Base intheir territory, good for the economy and great for their own defense. Think of how quick we could bomb BA if we wanted. Would that be less than 10min by air? Think CFK could scramble the crop dusters in time?
Bahahaha
18 Pirat-Hunter (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 01:36 pm Report abuse
Mr. Democratically elected president Hugo Chavez we will like to welcome you to the mercosur block. We are sure our nations will have a great future under mercosur umbrella.
19 ChrisR (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 02:23 pm Report abuse
DunniBurger aka Mr. Blobby
”Again drunk mate? Surely, as you correct others on grammar, you meant 'drunk again'?

Your facile comment reminds me of a retort given by the famous Churchill, you know, the alcoholic with anxiety syndrome who kicked the shit out of you Kraut predecessors, on being abused by 'Bessie Braddock' a rather grotesque Labour MP in the 1950s in the House of Commons.

She said one evening during a late sitting 'you are drunk', to which Churchill said 'and you, madam, are ugly. But I will be sober in the morning'.

In your case replace 'ugly' with 'stupid', you can leave the madam as I think it fits.
20 yankeeboy (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 02:32 pm Report abuse
Even drunk posts from USA/UK are more coherent and realistic than those of most of the RGs on this board. Pirat/Axel I'm talking to you...
21 Pirat-Hunter (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 04:10 pm Report abuse
#20 if what you say is true why don't you share your advise with someone who actually cares for your opinion in USA or UK, I didn't see any Argentine asking you for it, Stupid is as stupid does for this reason it is worth mentioning that no one here was apparently talking to you or even care to ask for your opinión. All yanke's are like women who like to waste time on gossip. chuzma chuzma chuzma!
22 yankeeboy (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 06:21 pm Report abuse
Aren't you answering my posts? Seems so...I would rather have nobody than a illegal immigrant living in Canada
23 Max (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 07:18 pm Report abuse
not drunk !

merely impulsively believes everything,excessive reflex,primitive instinct,vulgar aggressive.............
24 Pirat-Hunter (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 08:27 pm Report abuse
#22 I am Merely stating the obvious. Hardly a reason to become bias and racist. I am sure that you wouldn't like me telling all white europids to take their politics back to europe, and If I where you I wouldn't be pissing in someone else's turf, not very ethical are ya??In any case President Dilma did with Chavez what I expected CFK to do with Chavez and moyano because they can't expect the media to deliver the dialog that should be taking place among themselves in regards to our common goals and national interests.
25 briton (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 08:39 pm Report abuse
Despite what you Argies may think,
And laugh it of as you do, [we see laugh as a sign of fright]
But doesn’t worry, we wont tell,
But the fact is, [15 Conqueror] aint far of the mark,

But as you are south American,
Just think of what might be, if the yanks really did take an interest in you,
After all, there are all ready American bases , and soldiers , ships and planes , on south American soil , , [is this not true]

Just talk my friend, just talk and pray,
You’re very good at that .lol.

.
26 yankeeboy (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 08:50 pm Report abuse
24. Nobody takes economic or political opinions of maids and/or gardeners seriously. How do you garden when there is barely 3 months of summer in Canada do you shovel snow in the other months? Maybe you are a maid and you're inside all the time, does your boss let you use their internet on your breaks?
27 Pirat-Hunter (#) Jul 22nd, 2012 - 11:40 pm Report abuse
#26 I am surprised to hear you have to remind yourself things like that. Most people think for themselves when it come to politics or economics. Gladly my company pays for Internet for us to use all the time, not just on breaks but 24/7 fortunately for them I only use the one I pay for at home, Imagine that?? Besides I couldn't be bothered with Internet at lunch when there is a buffet being served. You are talking to the wrong man and providing useless advise. Can you say k viva Chaves?
28 DanyBerger (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 05:34 am Report abuse
@ChrisR

I don’t care I never was interest in English language what for? to talk about the weather?
What most amazed me is the fact that English mother tongue speakers here cannot read and write properly their own language.

Do you have any suggestion to enlighten us over the subject?
29 GeoffWard2 (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 08:15 am Report abuse
Briton #12 ......
“They burst out of huge 'seed pods'”
“They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...! ”

1956 version was a social comment film of McCarthyism (aka Macarthyism) in the USA .... communist aliens within the system.

The Sutherland reprise (1978) was even better.

Classic horror

.... presently being further reprised in Mercosur.
.... is Chavez and Bolivarism a bogeyman or a real madness, a real threat to the advancement of the Continent?
30 Idlehands (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 08:35 am Report abuse
All hail Chavez

The new leader, mouthpiece and geopolitical thinker of the Mercosur bloc.

Good luck with that.
31 DanyBerger (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 09:20 am Report abuse
I cannot wait to hear Hugo speech in the ceremony I hope he makes any reference to imperialist from little raining Island in faster decline.
32 JoseAngeldeMonterrey (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 10:03 am Report abuse
The Mercosur has become a big circus already thanks to Chavez, who manipulated Cristina and Dilma to get in. Brazil has legitimized another banana republic dictatorship.
33 Idlehands (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 11:30 am Report abuse
I still can't fathom why the Brazilians and Uruguayans wanted Venezuela to join. What do they possibly hope to gain from it?

I can only assume it's something to do with Venezuelan oil production as there is no sense inviting the village idiot to join if he brings nothing to the table.
34 Conqueror (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 11:54 am Report abuse
@16 Might be. What's your excuse? Just thick?
@21 I don't think you really understand. What we really want you to do is die. But being kindly and considerate people who find it difficult to believe that there aren't 5 or 6 argies who might be worth saving. Therefore we proffer our hard-won knowledge and experience. Can't make you take it so we comfort ourselves with the thought that, when you've turned yourself into another Zimbabwe, we can laugh uncontrollably whilst trying to get out the words “Told you so!”
@27 Then you seem to be “home” a lot. How much is your “company” paying you for your one hour working day?
@28 “Modern English, sometimes described as the first global lingua franca, is the dominant language or in some instances even the required international language of communications, science, information technology, business, seafaring, aviation, entertainment, radio and diplomacy.” So, if you have no interest, you are obviously one of the intellectually sub-normal. But then we knew that!
@31 What a pity he's going to Brazil. If he was staying in Venezuela, we could have had some Royal Navy vessels fire an appropriate salute. We could send HMS Diamond, HMS Triumph and HMS Vengeance. Boom, boom, boom!
@32 If you check out events, I think you'll find Uruguay was against it. Unfortunately, when it came to the moment, Pepe the Plonker had to have discussions with the Wicked Witch of the South and Dilma the Guerrilla.
35 yankeeboy (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 02:02 pm Report abuse
Dany, Do you think Chavez's speech be 6 or 12 hours long?

What a bunch of clowns these tin pot dictators are..
36 briton (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 02:30 pm Report abuse
29 GeoffWard2
The Sutherland reprise (1978)
The best I think and a great actor.

Great films
thanks
.
37 SussieUS (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 05:36 pm Report abuse
Is unacceptable conQUEEERRRRR keeps inflicting these viewers, continiously, with threats of killing which produces severe mental cruelty to all!
I really would like to know his name and see his face, such criminal don't deserve to post in this web page. Who is liable if someone start shooting? He does. He has a criminal mind.
38 Simon68 (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 05:38 pm Report abuse
37 SussieUS (#)

“He has a criminal mind.”

So do you!!!!!
39 SussieUS (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 05:46 pm Report abuse
I don't have any record in file that I am a criminal.
You are the liar not accepting the facts that former argentine president Carlos Menen ruined the economy of my country and collected millons of dollars under the table for permitting the movie“Evita” be film in my country Argentina.
Simeon, your male menoupase only lets you urinate 24 hours daily.
40 Simon68 (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 05:54 pm Report abuse
39 SussieUS (#)

“You are the liar not accepting the facts that former argentine president Carlos Menen ruined the economy of my country and collected millons of dollars under the table for permitting the movie“Evita” be film in my country Argentina.”

WTF are you talking about????????

“Simeon, your male menoupase only lets you urinate 24 hours daily.”

I think you're mixing up male menopause with with prostate!!!!!!!
41 SussieUS (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:08 pm Report abuse
I don't have any criminal record. He does and he can be held liable!
42 ChrisR (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:35 pm Report abuse
40 Simon68

I think she is criminally insane.

Let's see what she makes of that. :o)
43 SussieUS (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 06:58 pm Report abuse
@42 ChrisRepulsive
No, I am not.
ConQUEEEEEEEERRRR is the one that is abusing these viewers with mental cruelty always talking about killing. He is liable for such behavior!
44 Steveu (#) Jul 23rd, 2012 - 08:30 pm Report abuse
@14 Ottona

Perhaps if you left the UK and its legitimate interests alone, we would leave you alone. The UK has better things to do with its time than plot Argentina's downfall - it is doing that quite nicely without our help.
45 Pirat-Hunter (#) Jul 24th, 2012 - 03:16 pm Report abuse
#34 I work 5 days a week 9hr per day at 28$/hr, half of those hours there is nothing to do so I blogs from my own phone because the company Internet is slow, as you can see I don't need anything from others, my work day is worth 250$ after taxes, employment insurance, RRSP, pension and union fees. But we should be talking about Chavez and how glad we southamerican are for the integration of Venezuela to mercosur this move was long over due, since it was clear that Paraguay was acting against the unification of mercosur and interfering with the progress of the boock, Paraguay should be allowed back without voting power and as a observer rather then a voting member while we let Venezuela vote to see if Paraguay can ever comeback.
46 briton (#) Jul 24th, 2012 - 04:25 pm Report abuse
so half the time, you are earning something for nothing,

you should give back half of your wages,
if you was honest .
47 Pirat-Hunter (#) Jul 24th, 2012 - 06:06 pm Report abuse
No I am actually getting payed for being away from home, I would rather be home but since I get payed to sit and wait, that is exactly what I do, while I read and support southamerica. Venezuela is a great country and we are all very supportive of mercosur acceptance of Venezuela as permanent member.
48 briton (#) Jul 24th, 2012 - 09:04 pm Report abuse
glad you like them,,

still money for old rope is it not .
49 GeoffWard2 (#) Jul 25th, 2012 - 09:01 am Report abuse
Re. Chavez: “ I can't kick his balls off. He doesn't have any!” Conqueror (#9)

Not sure about this. There is no reported change in the timbre of his voice, so it is likely that his abdominal cancers have not, so far, extended to his testicles. Agree with #10, his immune compromise could be significant.

I'm pretty sure that Chavez wants his Last Picture Show to be Bolivarian, totally public, and with pathos and displays of grief across South America.
Rice/Lloyd Webber could make a musical of it.
50 ChrisR (#) Jul 25th, 2012 - 11:48 am Report abuse
49 GeoffWard2

Or the BBC could make a farce of it. :o)
51 DanyBerger (#) Jul 26th, 2012 - 09:22 am Report abuse
@Idlehands

Oh Boy
“What I love about Dany is that when you mock him he comes back with a comment that makes no sense whatsoever.”

Is not that, simply the guy is an amateur looking for some clients to sell his lame reports.
Claiming to be a specialist on SA affairs specially Argentina when none have ever seen him.

Who pays him Otto Reich?

@ yankeeboy

Again Yankee bobo the jealous idiot strikes again...

The CEO of YPF “Miguel Galluccio” is an Argentine petroleum engineer and his former job was in Schlumberger Limited the largest oilfield services company in the world as director of Production Management. A division created by him self that provided the high S&D tech for industries in Houston Texas, Mexico (Pemex), Repsol, BP, etc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumberger
52 Pirat-Hunter (#) Jul 26th, 2012 - 07:49 pm Report abuse
And we confirm with Chavez that the path to the integration of Venezuela as a full member is clear for the progress of mercosur into a better and more united block. We also will like to thank Film for setting differences aside to unite our block and better exploit our resources. We invite all none mercosur members to keep their irrelevant comments to themselves. thank you in advance.

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