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Paraguay sounding the possibility of joining the Pacific Group
Paraguay is sounding the recently created Pacific Block made up of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico with the possibility of considering applying to join it, revealed the country’s Foreign affairs minister Jose Fernandez Estigarribia. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesother countries should leave mercosur now chubby reigns as dear leader and join pacific block leaving tard queen and chubby as sole members to fight it out.
Aug 11th, 2012 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Go Paraguay!
Aug 11th, 2012 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Break the chains of oppression and join the real world!
Note for MercoPress: The term is “bloc”, not “block”. Look at Wikipedia. It specifically says that “bloc” should not be confused with “block”. You can also go on to Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bloc
Aug 11th, 2012 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0I SAID that Paraguay would head for the Pacific Alliance. If it is accepted and gets its feet under the table quickly enough, it may well abandon mercosur. Who'd want to be in any sort of alliance with Chavez? Poor Uruguay. The minnow amongst the sharks. No wonder “Pepe” wants marijuana to be legal. He needs “his” people wandering around in a drug-induced haze. Probably followed by either argieland or Brazil to send in troops to “restore order”. But they'll never leave. Get going, Paraguay, while the going's good!
Good move, although I expect Cristina will go out of her way to make things difficult for them, we all know about her liking for blockades. Paraguay is going to need some powerful friends. It is nice see them showing some guts though.
Aug 11th, 2012 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paraguay´s future has been cast out of Mercosur thanks to third-world diplomatic arrogance and prepotence from Brazil and Argentina. Paraguay has no other way but to leave the bloc and join the Pacific Alliance. Big mistake, I understand many have come to expect this sort of arrogant and erratic diplomacy from Cristina, but I am quite surprised to see Dilma and Mujica going along with it.
Aug 11th, 2012 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#5 You should not be surprise about Brazil and Uruguay the two representatives are honest in their intentions they are of left wing ideology, they will follow Chavez lefty wing politics’ and of course it does not hurt having some oil contracts with pdvsa they will act this way to the detriment of their respective economies
Aug 11th, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But Cristina from Argentina is another issue she’s a common criminal she is there for personal gain remember they (she) confiscated YPF and right away ceased the opportunity of the situation in Paraguay to have the Bolivarian country join the mercoleft she manipulates the economy with amateur economist in Argentina and have direct interest through other parties as front in YPF.
Also remember the famous suitcase from Chavez there is lots of information about that from a Venezuelan defector in the US.
The Argentinean press knows this but they cannot publish any article regarding their findings, if they do they will be punished dearly.
Paraguay is clearly going right, but how many of these Pacific countries are going to stay on the right for long? In Chile Bachelet could come back, in Mexico its probably the PRD next time, in Peru the left are already in just being a bit cautious for my liking but that could change, Columbia remains oligarchic but Santos at least knows he has to have a constructive relationship with Chavez, and Paraguay itself will have an election in April that Lugo may stand in and win!
Aug 11th, 2012 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Aug 11th, 2012 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You could look at it that way or you could look at it that old guard is coming to an end in South America and the countries with integrity are putting some distance between themselves and the Kirchner/Chavez disaster coalition of the criminally insane.
“...but how many of these Pacific countries are going to stay on the right for long? In Chile Bachelet could come back”
Aug 11th, 2012 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No matter if Bachelet or Lagos come back to Chile, it would never be considered a “leftist” country, nor they have been during their past presidencies in the way YOU understand it (and what a relieve this fact means!)
Chile is going to maintain a stable and reliable path, no matter who's in power. At least that is something we can rely on.
#7,
Aug 12th, 2012 - 03:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0“in Mexico its probably the PRD next time”. The next presidential elections will be held in 2018, a long way to go. The new president will stand by NAFTA, all the dozens of FTAs Mexico has with countries around the world, the Pacific Alliance and the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks.
@5 One mistake. Mujica doesn't get a choice. If you recall the reports, you'll remember that the action against Paraguay was agreed behind closed doors between the 3 presidents. Do you not think that a little odd? Does Pepe not rush off to meet CFK at regular intervals? Could it be that CFK has something “on” him? Does it start to be more understandable? Behind closed doors CFK can trot out a little threat. Nod and a wink to Dilma. Job done! It would be on the right sort of level for CFK.
Aug 12th, 2012 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am not sure why people insist on labelling politicians left or right. Most are centrist with leanings to the right or left; completely different to hard-left or hard-right. Politics in South America has evolved with the exceptions of Argentina and Venezuela.
Aug 12th, 2012 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12 Centrist take a look at their policies more social assistance and more anti business, you need the wealth creation to sustain the social programs countries like Argentina where the government anti business policies created a sucking sound of dollar out of the country, their policies will collapse the country and is creating an ungovernable country I must admit that Christina is not left or right, she is a corrupted politician a scam artist of the first rate.
Aug 12th, 2012 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And when there is no more money to suck from the people that produced the goods the country will collapse.
Mylady Elaine, Pepe Mujica is more of an anarchist, pretty far to the left, I would say...
Aug 12th, 2012 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#14 =)
Aug 13th, 2012 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the funny thing is that those who comment here think they know politics, but actually do not know anything. Who is behind the fall of lugo is the United States. all for putting an American base near Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela. if the united states are hated in the world is because dao reasons.
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