Bolivia signs Mercosur incorporation protocol and becomes sixth member
Bolivian president Evo Morales subscribed on Friday the Mercosur incorporation protocol which makes it the sixth member of the regional group. The event took place in Brasilia during the Mercosur summit hosted by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff.
At the summit which also included associate members, President Morales and his peers signed the document. “With the signing of the protocol, Bolivia becomes the six member state of Mercosur”, announced officially the spokesperson for the Brazilian Executive.
“The protocol defines the different stages and commitment to reach the full incorporation of Bolivia to Mercosur”, added the spokesperson. “The full membership will take place once the Legislatives of the other full members ratify the protocol”.
“Evo, you are most welcome” said president Rousseff before the signing of the document. “This has been good news for the summit. We have skipped years of negotiations with the Bolivian decision to sign the adhesion protocol”.
At the summit President Rousseff as chair of Mercosur stamped her signature to the definitive incorporation of Venezuela as full member which was decided in an extraordinary meeting last July in Rio do Janeiro.
At the summit also, Brazil handed the rotating chair of Mercosur to Uruguay in the hands of President Jose Mujica, for the next six months, thus skipping Paraguay, temporarily suspended and which according to alphabetical order was to have such responsibility.
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these cold íslánds ! when ?
The day you find someone much much stronger to fight your battles for you and is able to launch aircraft without a T45 destroyer dispatching them as they leave the ground. Oh and are prepared to see Buenos Aires get levelled by Tommahawk cruise missiles. When?
The protocol defines the different stages and commitment to reach the full incorporation of Bolivia to Mercosur.
The full membership will take place once the Legislatives of the other full members ratify the protocol”.
...............
i.e. .... not an Associate, but not a Full Member.
As a 'Non-Full-Member', can Bolivia vote Paraguay out of Mercosur?
Let's have a look at the Protocol and see what hoops Bolivia is required to jump through.
As Paraguay will never ratify, Bolivia can never become a Full Member.
Solution -
throw out Paraguay or make Paraguay 'an offer it can't refuse'.
I guess Unasur will provide
(i) 'diplomatic validity' (citing 'Failed State' and a global-drug-source) and
(ii) a Continent's worth of armed forces to crush Paraguay if it won't go quietly.
With Chavez's permission, Paraguay ceases to exist as it is divided into constituent 'states' of the surrounding belligerent nations - Bolivia, Argentina and Brasil.
Paraguay becomes history and can be swiftly removed from South America's school history books.
Sounds like a plan to me:
Falklands defence force will aid American military
Chile will keep out of it;
Argentina won't fight / 100.000 worth of cowards;
Uruguay will keep out of it / no military;
Brasil will withdraw;
The dynamic duo of Correa & Morales will crap themselves and run away;
Venezuela will fall over in a modern fire-fight. END OFF and all the oil for the USA and the UK!
Bring it on.
The bigger the union the stronger you are.......
well done South America: ( not good news for The Falklands)
Oh, so, so true.
This is one new country to be on the look out for....
If they vote with one voice in matters of military and economics..WATCH OUT, BABY!!
@8 Are you new? Did you know that you're going to die? Reasons? You're not allowed to call the Islands by the “M” word. The, any attempt to take the Falkland Islands will require you to walk on water. Glug, glug, glug. Then, any ships venturing inside the Falklands EEZ will immediately be seized, just like the Libertad. Finally, we believe in the Rommel principle. Kill invaders at the water's edge. Will you be at the front or, like most argies, at the back?
@9 A “union” of crooks and criminals. Two more countries not to trade with. Ban all LatAm “goods” from Europe. Theyh are not really “goods”, they are “bads”. All contaminated with the flesh-eating MRSA super-bug. Only solution is to sterilise LatAm. Can't use antibiotics. Have to go nuclear.
As for the force of mercosur, Bolivian businesses already have concerns that they will be trapped by the rules of mercosur and see a reduction in exports/sales. Who does mercosur have argeements with....the palestinians and ........anad....and....
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The leadership itself will kill mecosur trying to a united political entity........too many south american egos....
Bad news for warmongers ;)
(are you all veterans or what? Looks like you would fap to an aircraft photo LOL)
It's a customs union. It tries to wear a veneer of a political union but it is nothing of the sort. So it could have every South American nation as a member and this will still mean squat on Argentina gaining the Falklands.
Also for anyone (Antonn) to claim that Peru, Chile and Colombia are going to or desire to join is farcical. These nations already have what they want from Mercosur without all the burdensome tariffs and backstabbing.
Chile, Colombia and Peru have an outward looking trade policy, not an inward one like Mercosur. They also have extremely high growth rates and aren't being dragged down by Argentina and Brazil.
Indeed Paraguay make realise during its suspension that it might gain more outside than in.
yeah, I know it's supposed to be a customs union, but it is becoming increasingly politicised and is beginning to operate as a supra-national government of the small nations. It was never meant for this.
Its customs protocols are massively at odds with similar protocols of the other world trading blocs and there is no evidence of a desire to move towards harmony - quite the reverse, the Mercosur 'protocols' (such as they are) have become a vehicle for blocking trade with the rest of the world.
The operation of Mercosur is becoming, more and more, a mirror of Chavez's ALBA group - a 'bolivarian' aggregation of poverty-stricken small states hoping to survive by hanging together.
Now Chavez has got his blocs increasingly aligned and his cash-cow - Brasil - trapped within, the milking can begin.
Jupppppppp.......
This opens a door of opportunity to Vice president Nicolás Maduro in the forthcoming elections.......
A man of the people......
A decent vorking man.....
A mix of Lula and Pepe but with just 1/3 of their combined age.....
Good luck to him and good luck to President Chavez.....
Vice President Maduro? Yes, they have hold elections first,..could be anybody else too.
She seems to intent on alienating as many sectors of the Argentine society as she can such as:
The Unions
The middle class
The Catholic Church which is the official State religion
Those nasty oligarchs the farmers who produce most of Argentinas exportable wealth
The tourists who want to spend thier holidays a way from Argentina
Now the judiciary with threats of impeachment because they ruled against her
Business who cant import matierials to reexport with added value
The Ghanians over the Libertad
The Us court judges
Even Pepe judging from his last expressions of hot air
So whats left? La Campora may get fed up with her and depose her.Quite unconstitutional of course and antidemocratic but then so was the legal impeachment of Paraguays president but at least it was according to thier constitution. In which case Argentina will be suspended from Mercosur of course
Think ,we have a water bird here called the gallineta which squawks all the time which in common speech is called a tapaculo (cover arse) from its habits. Perhaps you might like to emulate that bird before its too late
@14 Shall we excuse you because you're a little slow on the uptake? Are you ready for a first strike of 270 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Accept that the Falkland Islands are not “part” of South America. They are British islands in the South Atlantic. None of your business.
@16 Try to remember. It may not be “your” history. In the period 1939-45, Britain fought for three years ALONE. We fought the Germans, the Italians, the Japanese, the Hungarians, the Romanians and the Bulgarians. By November 1942, the North African Campaign had virtually been won by the British. Famously, all we asked was “give us the tools and we will finish the job.” But still glad of assistance from our American cousins. It shortened the war. “We will NEVER surrender.”
@21 IGNORED AS REQUESTED.
Argentine red card impending - 17th December
Currency devaluation (again) ?
LOL
only the decent ones.
as for CFK, as she is spending your money, it matters not ..
The distance from Brazil’s industrial heartland to the Pacific via Bolivia and Arica is half what it is via the Amazon and out through Peru. Half the distance and no Argentine border problems – another goal for Brazil.
Shame they didn’t think of this before tearing a gash, 1000s of kms long through Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon.
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