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Venezuelan parliament approves incorporation of Bolivia to Mercosur as full member
The Venezuelan parliament approved Bolivia’s protocol of adherence to Mercosur as full member thus clearing the way for the landlocked mostly indigenous populated country to become the sixth member of the South American trade block next to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWell Mercosur is about to incorporate all the countries it can.
Jul 18th, 2013 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Seems the Pacific Alliance is about to gain Panama; the Latin American tiger economy.
Who is winning?
Pretty soon we will see Raul Castro from Cuba also joining Mercosur, Kim Jong II from North Korea and Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe, all a happy family in Mercosur!
Jul 18th, 2013 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There goes the neighborhood now, right down the drain.......if we had plumbing here. At least all us turnips will be neatly packed in one dirt field.
Jul 18th, 2013 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mercosur requires a full vote by the four founders, which does not include Venezuela, to enjoin other countries.
Jul 18th, 2013 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Dead Man Now Rotting would be so proud.
No Chris, Mercosur requires a vote by the other member nations, not by the founders.
Jul 18th, 2013 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And as we all are Chávez, we are all proud.
Welcome aboard Bolivia
:)
You turnips.....it requires what we deem it to require. Mercosur is ours.....Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela and we will pretty much do as we please and modify the rules as we need to. This is our club, not the world's...no one else's. Deal with you underdeveloped turnips.
Jul 18th, 2013 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Rules! WTF! Poilitics is more important than rules.
Let Bolivia and Ecuador join with their sister Bolivarian states!
Jul 18th, 2013 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It should be even more entertaining watching them malfunction as a trading bloc.
Can not wait to see what they come up with.
As the yanks say, it should be a doozy!
5 Stevie
Jul 18th, 2013 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wasn't that the issue with Paraguay?
Venezuela could not legally be admitted to Mercosur because not all the Founding Members had voted for it, Paraguay being on “suspension”??
Troy
Jul 18th, 2013 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At the time, the founding members where also the only members. But the agreement says all the members, not only the founding ones. And you can add an unwritten subrule to it. ”Regardless of what any (in)dependant senate may or may not think”.
An easy rule to grasp, don't you think? ;)
What happens if Paraguay returns and votes against their incorporation.
Jul 18th, 2013 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here's a cunning idea, find a pretence to suspend Paraguay and then vote Bolivia in, simple!
@10 with Paraguay willing to leave Mercosur I don't think anyone is worried about that.
Jul 18th, 2013 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 011
Jul 18th, 2013 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sell your house and put your money on that assumption ;)
@5, 9 Can you read and comprehend the following?
Jul 18th, 2013 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, hereinafter referred to as the ”States Parties“,
”Approval of applications shall require the unanimous decision of the States Parties.“
If you have trouble with these two items, you will find them in the Treaty of Asuncion. Strangely, a treaty signed in Paraguay.
Now you will note that an application for admission must be decided unanimously by the States Parties. And the ”States Parties” are defined.
An easy rule to grasp, don't you think? ;)
Do you have anything else to say, little bullshitter?
5 Stevie
Jul 18th, 2013 - 04:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I find it always pays to check the facts before posting, it stops people calling you 'little bullshitter'.
:o)
14 Well put !
Jul 18th, 2013 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahaha Chris. Proof is, Venezuela approved Bolivias incorporation, regardless of how conq translates Spanish :)
Jul 18th, 2013 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And conq, your “rule” is obviously not that easy to grasp, as the member states tends to do what it pleases them, regardless of how loud you lot cry.
Now THAT should be a rule easy to grasp.
16 Stevie
Jul 18th, 2013 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, that is chaos.
Chris
Jul 18th, 2013 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And this World order is a human disorder...
It's amazing how some people espouse the rule of law, protecting minorities and respect for countries no matter their size.
Jul 18th, 2013 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And then turn around and hypocritically espouse the exact opposite.
Always blaming things on the oligarchs is quite amusing when you consider that an oligarch is someone who holds the economic and political power over a group of people and wields it to their own benefit.
It would seem that Mercosur has become an oligarchy.
Most intelligent rats abandon a sinking ship, but there are others who invade it to feast on the putrescent corpses
Jul 18th, 2013 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anglolatino
Jul 18th, 2013 - 10:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You deal marked cards and then you point fingers when somebody cheats...
Anyone in venezuela was going to say no to the get bolivia into the bunch?
Jul 19th, 2013 - 02:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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