MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Venezuela threatens Colombia after Santos meets opposition leader Capriles
Caracas is furious over a Wednesday meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua told state television the meeting “will bring a derailment of the good relations that we have” while Parliament Speaker Diosdado Cabello compared the meeting to “placing a bomb on the train.” Read full article
Comments
Disclaimer & comment rulesMaduro's government is so bloody insecure. They should just shut up and not mention it rather then give it political significance by making a fuss. And Cabello should stop referring to the dead Chavez, it only further undermines Maduro. Does anyone in Maduro's government have any political nous?
May 31st, 2013 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is slightly concerning that they are continually talking about a coup or about the possibility of the president being assasinated. Are the setting the groung for something?
May 31st, 2013 - 08:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0In the end they should ingore Capriles. I'm dissappointed in him and his tactics since the election. It may have be fraudulent, I don't know but personally I think that he shuld get on with being an effective opposition and, if he wants change, bring this about by power of his arguments. This shouldn't be too difficult as, whatever you think of Maduro's poliocies, his government seems to be in a mess, without clarity and without true direction.
Venezuela is run by bloody idiots! Honestly what a big bunch of bloody drama queens to look at not supporting peace talks with the FARC because of one meeting!
May 31st, 2013 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is the Colombian army massing on the border? Has anything changed?
Capriles has every right to meet with whomever he pleases and the Colombian government does too. Maduro's government is sliding further towards outright fascism in some respects.
It is no wonder that amongst the average Colombian, that Venezuela is now viewed as a basket case.
Does this amaze you or astound you? It does not. What else could you expect from this former bus driver?
May 31st, 2013 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0He was taught well by El Comandante
Anglotino's comments are incisive and too the point: Capriles has every right to meet with whomever he pleases and the Colombian government does too. Maduro's government is sliding further towards outright fascism in some respects.
This makes me wonder who is running Venezuela: Maduro or the military? Venezuela cannot get itself unshackled from the era of CAUDILLISMO.
@4 Cuba is running Venezuela.
May 31st, 2013 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0It seems to me that Maduro is about to be 'removed' in favour of Diosdado Cabello who, as an ex army officer (is that ever true - do you ever leave the army?) and someone with personal power in the 'Parliament' is better qualified than the Bus Driver.
May 31st, 2013 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro seems to be 'looking in the headlights' in every picture of him lately.
I wonder who won the toilet role in the National Lottery that the Bus Driver was showing off recently. I bet the winner was mugged on the way home.
This is a typical reaction from a pseudo dictatorship who thinks the only legitimate voice is theirs & all opposition are enemies of the state
May 31st, 2013 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In any normal democracy the opposition has a voice & that right is respected but in Venezuela they are called fascists & murderers
I agree with the Wizard that Capriles should bide his time & wait for Mad..uro to completely destroy the economy before he can make an effective change in the government......it´s just a matter of time!!!
Poor little Venezuela. Should have understood the implications of Maduro. He drives buses. He doesn't manufacture buses. He doesn't service buses. He doesn't maintain buses. He doesn't put fuel in buses. He doesn't even pay for the fuel that goes in buses. He doesn't collect the fares and he doesn't issue the tickets. And this is what get puts in charge of an entire country? Poor little Venezuela. Do the sensible thing. Take him out and shoot him. While you're at it, catch the little bird and wring its neck. Then you might stand a chance. Because you don't have one at present!
May 31st, 2013 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What I find surprising is that Santos received Capriles . To date , apart from his fight with Uribe , Santos has proven sure footed in his actions . Why receive Capriles and damage relations with Venezuela .He knows , we all know , that Maduro is a nut case , but why infuriate him ? That is the question my friends ?
May 31st, 2013 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyone see the story about the warehouse found with over 2000 bundles of toilet paper ring ordered. Maduros response? A plot to destabilise he government,I would laugh, but my late parents would never forgive me it. They taughtme to never mock the afflicted
May 31st, 2013 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10
May 31st, 2013 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Venezuela may be the first government to be brought down by a lack of toilet paper.......I guess the old adage 'We're up shit creek' seems appropriate now for Mad..uro!!!
Sorry about the misspelling I am using a tablet with auto spell, that should have read, “paper being hoarded.”
May 31st, 2013 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But come off it, what sort of a ferkin country finds a warehouse full of poop paper and calls it a plot to overthrow the government.
It's incredulous! This is a country, that is the 7th largest producer of oil, a member of an organisation that fixes the world price of oil and it act like this.
Ferk me, Venezualans could shit gold and they could still not get it right.
Ok I am off topic here so sue me. Seems the Venezuelan police are making a dent in serious crime.........hoarding toilet paper!!! They made a raid and seized 2,500 rolls!!! I wonder if they give commendations of bravery for this action?
May 31st, 2013 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-police-seize-2-500-rolls-toilet-paper-182819935.html
I'm wondering if he decided to meet with Capriles because he's aware of something going on. I'm truly guessing and not insinuating that I know something. I'm just wondering if Colombian Intelligence knows of some impending events and he decided to meet him? I'm probably way off, but it makes one wonder.
May 31st, 2013 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cap
May 31st, 2013 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You read it too, what a laugh, you like me are probably use to reading stories of significant seizures of narcotics! Not ferkin toilet tissue. It's beyond laughable.
I suppose they must have some real cops over there? Mind you, dangerous working on the under cover ass wiping squad!
Absolutely unbelievable.......try wrapping your mind around their thinking? lol
May 31st, 2013 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey want to take a hit?
May 31st, 2013 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah sure, what you got man?
Andrex (UK's softest toilet paper.)
No shit! Man!
I have nothing but the best.....Charmin.....sooooooo squeezably soft! 15U$ a roll.......no exceptions.
May 31st, 2013 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was posted to AFCENT in Holland, first time I served alongside your fellow countrymen, nice blokes, but that saying that two nations separated by the same language was never so true.
May 31st, 2013 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Having left my new wife of two months in our quarter and reported for duty, I was slightly worried about her.
I returned home to find her laughing in hysterics, she had gone across the block to buy the first groceries for our new home. She showed me a roll of toilet paper and I swear by god on my children and my grandchildren, the brand name was, “SOFASS.”
Thirty years later we still laugh at it. Perhaps that's what the Venezualans need, some nice soft Dutctch SOFASS!
14 Jakesnake . Exactly what I thought ! Sending a message to the “ no toilet paper nut ” -- do not start supporting the terrorists again .
May 31st, 2013 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You ain't seen nothing yet!
May 31st, 2013 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 019 I had a really good laugh - SOFASS ! . On Venezuela you are so right ! It seems that they may postpone the June Mercosur meet . Worried about what Maduro might do or say !
May 31st, 2013 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Speaking of Mercosur.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0What happens if the Venezuelan govt. gets taken over undemocratically?
Would Mercosur suspend them?
@23 Bushpilot
Jun 01st, 2013 - 01:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0“What happens if the Venezuelan govt. gets taken over undemocratically?
Would Mercosur suspend them?”
They didn't when Maduro took over against the wording of the constitution earlier this year. Mercosur has one rule for the big countries and another rule for their smaller members.
As Paraguay has since found out.
22 Anglotino . I so like your last sentence .And now they want us to welcome Maduro with open arms .
Jun 01st, 2013 - 02:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Baxter
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0And have a look how well that is turning out.
Paraguay is actively courting other economic groups.
And only Dilma and Cristina are opening their arms to Maduro. Most other leaders would prefer the banana instead.
“What happens if the Venezuelan govt. gets taken over undemocratically?”
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0That would depend on who does the taking over, as was demonstrated in the highly questionable succession following Chavez death.
Maduro did take over with no constitutional grounds to do so, and Brazil and Argentina didn't blink an eye.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the military takes over by military coup in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina have to suspend them from Mercosur. Will they?
They suspended Paraguay for something that wasn't even a coup.
28 bushpilot
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They suspended Paraguay for something that was completely LEGAL and constitutional.
But we are talking about two countries who do not really respect others laws, and in the case of The Dark Country, their own as well.
28 bushpilot (#)
Jun 04th, 2013 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jun 02nd, 2013 - 08:40 pm
“... If the military takes over by military coup in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina have to suspend them from Mercosur. Will they?...”
Of course not, the “Bolivarian” military are left wing fundamentalists like Chubby Chávez so there would be no coup it would be an orderly “change of administration”!!!!!!!!
Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!