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Mercosur to skip Paraguay in December and hand rotating chair to Uruguay
Uruguay’s tenure of Mercosur rotating chair will be advanced six months meaning that at the coming summit in December Brazil will hand over the next six-month responsibility to the administration of President Jose Mujica, thus skipping Paraguay which remains suspended from the South American trade group. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood work mercosur for allowing progress to take place in our continent. We hope Paraguay can join our group again some day in the future.
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse -1@1 Pirat-hunter
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse +1Oh yes, good work mercosur, breaking your own rules and turning mercosur into a political tool for Venezula and Argentina. Well done for destroying South American unity.
Well done for highlighting that mercosur cannot be trusted as they won't follow their own rules.
Well done indeed.
#2 obviously you don't know what you are talking about, mercosur have being trying to unite the group for years and none other then Paraguay prevented that for not just one year, but for many many years, it wasn't until Paraguay got booted that Mercosur could finally unite everyone. The english speaking community ignorance on international political matters is Tully stunning. Its like the WMD all over again.
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse -1@3 pi-rat
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse +1mercosur will unite everyone - if you don't agree we will boot you out.
that just about suns up your level of democracy.
#4 Being booted is way better then having your whole country wiped out. Why don't the english community rather then look down at others take some examples of what a true democracy is like? When the WMD are found and the UK and USA get out of the middle east we might listen, until then we do not listen, follow or cooperate with terrorists regimes.
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse -15 Pirat Hunter
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. cocksmoker, mind the gap!
I sign that PH :)
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0This story makes south America look like a joke. Throw out one member on the most feeble pretext in order to incorporate another that they consistently objected to.
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse +1With Chavez leading Venezuela the rest of the world will treat Mercosur as it does Venezuela.
It seems to have destroyed even the marginal hope that there would be a trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur.
There must be some logic to the machinations that enabled Venezuela to join - I just can't work out what they are yet. Anyone care to elaborate?
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Oct 22nd, 2012 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse -1For you Idlehands only, see it as a substitution in a game of footie. Mercosur was loosing with Paraguay's bad actions on the pitch, but luckily, on the bench, we had Venezuela that came on and scored a hattrick ;)
So, the deposed Lugo, shagger extraordinaire, signed the agreements with Dead Man Walking without any support from elected officials, and having signed them did not send them to be ratified because he knew they would be rejected.
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0And this is the cnut who caused all the trouble. The cnut who the rest of the lefties crapping their pants in case they get the heave ho are claiming he was incorrectly dealt with!
Pepe will have even more chance to kiss TMBOA arse: I bet he is looking forward to that.
Chris, etc.
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't waste your energies arguing this in terms understood in the first world.
This is the THIRD world,
operating using third world tactics,
and introducing the Venezuelan methods of Democratic Dictatorship to countries that were tracking towards development.
All this is now gone.
Brasil will never get a deserved place on the UN Security Council,
Argentina will be allowed to degenerate completely,
the 'minnows' will get Western support in proportion to their 'ethics',
and the Continent will be thought of as no better (or worse) than Africa.
It could have been so different if Brasil (and Argentina) had said to Venezuela :
”We share some of your left wing ideals, but not your methods.
This is OUR club, not yours.
You have your own club (ALBA).
Go away”.
& 1
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why do you coerce yourself to write serial comments here if here is a pirate web site.
(11) GeoffWard2
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Ohhhhhh.....
You mean......... we are all “Plebs”?
Chuckle chuckle©
11 GeoffWard2
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, thanks for that Geoff, I see exactly what you mean.
12 Tinx
Come on, you know he is an idiot hiding in Canada.
@13 'I don't Think'
No, in your case you are a lying, obfuscating idiot, hiding in Chubut (you say).
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Oct 22nd, 2012 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse -1This is OUR club, not yours.
You have your own club(s)
Go away!
;)
@1 Actually, well done, Paraguay. The “mercofools” thought they could make you cave. Thought the could make you reinstate “Lugo the crim”. But democracy, freedom and honesty are winning. The free world is on your side. Don't give in. Remember who stood with you. Remember the LatAm dictatorships that didn't!
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 Unite the dictatorships! Create the LatAm tyranny. If Paraguay caves, the tyranny will spread. Bolivia and Ecuador will be next. They are well on their way. A blot on the planet that will have to be expunged. It could be another focal point for a Fourth Reich!
@5 You're living, undercover no doubt, in a democracy. Comparison with argieland? None. But what would you know? You fled. Crim or terrorist?
@7 FU FU
FU FU
FU FU
FU FU
FU FU
FU FU
FU FU
FU
Get it? Or are you dumb argies?
@8 South America/LatAm IS a joke. Has been for decades. The “machinations” are straightforward. Personal power. CFK and Chavez. Mujica is a cipher. Think about argieland (& Uruguayan slaves) on one side and Chavez on the other. Has (no allies) Rouseff any options? With the armed forces of 4 tyrannies combined, who will stand against them?
@9 Chavez has ruined Venezuela. Poverty suits him. Just enough “success” to give the people a taste. Not enough that they can affect anything. Old trick!
@13 Are you not a paedo faggot? Don't be shy!
@15 No. You're not a “club”. You're a threat. Threats need to be removed. If you check back in history, you may be surprised to find the number of “enemies” that have come together to remove “threats”. See how “the West” and the USSR got together to remove Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Back up a few years and the bombing might have already started. Don't think it can't be done. There might be arguments after. But will the cinders have a view?
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Oct 22nd, 2012 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Burp! :)
Dear Think @ #13.
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Historically, public schools in the United Kingdom - like the military training schools in the USA - would enrol (b ;) plebeians as well as (a) the sons of gentry and aristocrats. Classical allusions, but a useful segregator.
'Pleb' is used today in the UK to refer to the 'middle or lower order' (90%?) and is especially used derogatorily to type the unsophisticated, uncultured and 'jobsworths'.
Though I am a plebian by both nature and nurture, I am, I believe, no pleb.
We are increasingly surrounded by the unsophisticated and uncultured - or so it seems, in my old age. They are as likely to pop up on Mercopress postings as they are in Downing Street.
They seem to be particularly good at trolling, don't you think, Think?
I have similar problems with other accurate descriptors that have somehow evolved in the lexicon to become derogatory.
Mr Terry is more at fault for using the accurate descriptor than the ruder adjuncts.
I guess it is less pithy to throw “man of colour” at one with whom you are heatedly trading insults.
It could be worse; we might be simian Serbian football supporters!
Apologies for rising to your troll.
That's what a senile old man looks like.
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To be expected . Brazil trying to broker a deal which was scuppered by Chavez ousting the Paraguayan diplomats from Venezuela. How typical of him . The proverbial street bully .
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(18) GeoffWard2
Oct 22nd, 2012 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You say:
“We are increasingly surrounded by the unsophisticated and uncultured - or so it seems, in my old age.”
I say:
Try some desophistication then.
Wabi-sabi, old chap, is a good way for insufferable geezers like us....
OK, Think #21...
Oct 23rd, 2012 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As Evita might have said, “We're all plebs now”
And Sanchez might have replied “Speak for yourself, you F****** B****** C****”
To which the Serbians would have chipped in “Oooo, oooooo, oooo”
Makes for really interested reading, don'tuThink.
Somehow, I prefer the old skool style.
Of course Paraguay can't chair a group its not in and doesn't deserve to be in. Well done Cristina for defending democracy =)
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