MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Mujica proposes to blend Mercosur and Unasur into an only `more flexible group
Uruguayan president Jose Mujica proposed to its South American peers to blend Mercosur and Unasur into an only group, according to an interview with a Uruguayan weekly in which he also ratified his commitment with Venezuela (and its oil resources) to justify the incorporation of the fifth full member of Mercosur. Read full article
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Jul 06th, 2012 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yanqui!
Jul 06th, 2012 - 04:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't come and say I didn't tell you about the drastic changes in Mercosur :)
Poor Pepe. Frightened, senile old man. Now let's all sit back and watch Paraguay, and then Uruguay, “disappear”. argieland's good at making people “disappear”. No doubt Brazil will be wanting the land “belonging” to the braziguayans.
Jul 06th, 2012 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guzz,
Jul 06th, 2012 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is “Yanqui!” your new saludation?
Conqueror,
I doubt it will come to that.
It is indeed, Condorito, especially when I'm NOT referring to you...
Jul 06th, 2012 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 3 --> The Paraguayans, Bolivians, Brazilians, Chileans and Uruguayans define their nationalism in terms of Argentina. Until we have the great honor you “British Islander” also find meaning in his being Argentinian nationality. It really is a healthy pride to feel that we take for reference. We have no guilt about it, having that feeling that deep down is just jealous. Instead we feel Argentines and most of us is not nationalist, I like most of those who inhabit this land blessed myself as a cosmopolitan.
Jul 06th, 2012 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0senility symptom
Jul 06th, 2012 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mujica talks nonsense.
Yes, that must be it, Pepe is getting senile :)
Jul 06th, 2012 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You wont know what hit you :)
I most certainly do not like the idead of 250 Venezualan troops in Uruguay. I do hope they were not armed.
Jul 06th, 2012 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Scouting party was it? Let's hope not.
@6 Xavier
Jul 06th, 2012 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chileans define their nationalism in terms of Argentina ?!*
Few statements could be further from the truth.
Iwas thinking the same about Uruguay, but didn't want to give the britons more wood to the fire :)
Jul 06th, 2012 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 10 --> If not then explain to the people aversion to the Argentine Chilean .. What I say is an objective description of reality, if you do not like yours is a subjective matter.
Jul 06th, 2012 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0XavierV, only thing that we have in common with the Argentinian nationalism is your football stadiums, Uruguay has them as “home” as well :) :) :)
Jul 06th, 2012 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@xavierv
Jul 07th, 2012 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am not sure what you are asking @12
I am sure that I am being objective. If you ask any Chilean to define Chile and what it means to be Chilean, they will not make reference to Argentina.
It is a very odd point you are making.
There is still a place for the smaller economic entity, Mercosur.
Jul 07th, 2012 - 08:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mercosur needs trading protocols more than ever now - and RAPIDLY - especially to protect the 'minnows' and to remove politicisation and partial protectionism.
What needs to happen is the dismantling of Parlasur. Unasur has made it redundant.
Nah Geoff, we need to include Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, to diverse our market with more local products.
Jul 07th, 2012 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Then we need to boost our own production as a region.
This is looking great :)
@9 “to explain the presence during a week in Uruguay of 250 Venezuelan forces, without approval from the Legislative, and which on several occasions in meetings with their peers in military barracks swore allegiance to the Bolivarian Socialist regime of President Hugo Chavez.”
Jul 07th, 2012 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There you go. Nothing to worry about. Just Uruguayan troops swearing allegiance to Chavez. How would this be a problem? Once Uncle Pepe's proposals are enforced.... sorry, accepted, and mercosur is incorporated into unasur, “emperor hugo” will have cadres of “loyal” troops all around S. Am. Nothing to be concerned about. Just a bit of “insurance” to ensure venezuela's “allies” remain “allies” and don't think again. There are currently 12 S. Am. countries. Shortly to become 10. Colombia and Chile are “fairly” safe. For the time being. That just leaves Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname with concerns. Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru stand a small chance of remaining sovereign, for the time being. Guyana and Suriname stand no chance. They will be “absorbed”. No doubt it will happen “democratically”. So that'll be down to 8. Surely the next stage will be federalism and “ever closer union”. Colombia, with its close links with the U.S., may survive this. Chile?
A fly landed on the comment 17.
Jul 08th, 2012 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I love reading Pepe's latest gibberish. However, I am desperately sorry for the Uruguayan people who didn't vote for this repugnant dirty little loser.
Jul 09th, 2012 - 08:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0#18 Lol
Jul 11th, 2012 - 09:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0#19 How did he win then? Hadn't heard he'd done a George W Bush!
Sounds like a good idea to me, to merge the political and economic unifications in LatAm. Also encouraging to see the “architect of Uruguay's orthodo economics” so isolated in the government, seems like things are moving left =)
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