MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Mercosur social summit criticizes the Pacific Alliance and blasts free trade
The Mercosur social summit questioned any possible approach to the Alliance of the Pacific since it is an organization entirely dedicated to trade which would distract the Southern Cone countries from their social objectives. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesYou cowardly capitalist pigs in the Pacific Alliance promote a free trade free for all system where inequality is rife and many people are poor.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Come join us in the egalitarian protectionist Mercosur where trade is restricted, equality is paramount and everybody is poor.
“Evidently the continent’ right in alliance with the US are attempting against this integration process. Examples are more than evident…, it is evident that the Pacific Alliance is an instrument of that plan”, said Oscar Laborde Argentine ambassador from the Social Consulting Council.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0VICTIMS AGAIN!!!
These articles read like they used google for their translations rather than someone who speaks both English & Spanish fluently. Frustrating.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not the first time in history that jelous eyes have been cast westwards. I have to laugh when they refer to each other as brothers - feuding brothers in a dysfunctional family.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sadly for Mercosur, their protectionist measures are not actually protecting Mercosur but protecting others from them.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So funny to watch.
Fortunately, PA is just a trade treaty, were all the member have the same weight, value and rights, it don´t intervine into their political system and it´s sustained by the only successful countries in LA......the other countries are in the second football league and with a great posibility to descend to the third.....
Jul 12th, 2013 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jaelous, envy and lack of capability are leading the death walking Mercosur to say those negatives concepts against the PA, but....,and this is the important matter, their members are looking for their acceptance into the “enemy”......
Any reason for that facts...??? A lot of them, of course......
Restriction to trade, even inside the treaty....
Protectionosm from the main market members affecting the others...
Illegal way to suspend a founder full member acting soverignity under its constitution....
Illegal ways to join a new member rejected by one founder full member Congress....
High level of poverty, inflation, corruption, violence, political intolerance, low growth, social & economic inestability, populism & “caudillismo”, among other reason can explain the actual momento the conglomerate is living.....(or dying better said).
Anyway, some of those countries wouldn.t be accepted into the PA because its Curriculum Vitae of loosers......even they apply for on their knees.....!!!!
So, R. I. P. Mercosur.......wish you a better life under ground in your grave.....
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Jul 12th, 2013 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree, but not sure it's the fault of translator. Possibly more to do with, 'garbage in- garbage out'.
@3. Most do, more annoying is not linking back to the original source be it English, Spanish, Portuguese, or Klingon. My English teachers would have some words about that. It remains a workable news aggregator for SAME news in English.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These social inclusion plans are the direct reason why Uruguay has a massive fiscal drag from a government bloated by an inability to see the wood from the trees.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When you offer money to semi-literate people not to work, DON'T be surprised that they DON'T WORK!
Now Pepe has had to apologise, this time to the Uruguayo, about saying (in Spain) that you never see a Uruguayo who is worked out!
Perhaps the old commie is may not be so commie after all. The dawn of enlightenment seems to have woken Pepe up to the real world. The poor are poor because they didn’t try harder at school, didn’t want a job and are very happy living off the state: just like the UK after the bastards in New Labour fucked everything up. Exactly the same problem.
Off topic but worth it.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Snowdon does not want to go to Venezuela, LOL, he has asked Amnesty International to lobby Russia to give him asylum there.
You have to laugh. Even a fugitive doesn't want to go to Venezuela.
Elaine, he hasi at least four alternatives: the fourth being Russia but with a condition that he stop harming the USA interests. As a guest of the government, he'll be treated very well with a nice place to live and protection. He'll also be used as a propaganda tool. I hope the Americans don't get their hands on him, but it seems he's a dead man walking.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0( @10 He's somewhat more PR savvy than I thought but he has limited options, bringing me to -> @11 He has a shot of a survivable maybe even livable exile anywhere if and only if he agrees to a) not spill any more beans and b) be a propaganda agent for the host country in this case one that is far less free than the US [warts and all] -- but not too much of a tool or his cred in the West will dissolve as soon as, in the case of Russia, he starts to justify jailing P*ssy Riot and their recent legislation against gays to pay the rent to his new hosts, otherwise his fan club in the US and Europe will dissolve quickly. But I don't see this as a viable option in any country other than one solidly aligned with the US and those countries aren't offering him anything (even like, I've said before, countries in the West that are already raher ticked off at the US Justice Dept). )
Jul 12th, 2013 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He just held a meeting with press stating he wishes to stay in Russia. Russia does not want him. However, Snowden has also said that if Russia grant him asylum he will stop all political activity and being a big blabbermouth.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8Gface:
Jul 12th, 2013 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lol. Where's Spock when we need him?
@10 ElaineB:
What a choice. Perhaps Gerard Depardieu can put him up.
@8 (Ouch, that should be SA News in English, darned iPad)
Jul 12th, 2013 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(@10/@14 he could stay in Switzerland and hang with Roman. Boy that would a hard shot of chunky milk for some to swallow (but oddly not others since it hasn't been a problem for them in 35 years) )
Are these people for real? What a load of crap they have in their brain what bunch of self conceded idiots that they can tell others how people should live.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 03:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The alliance will distract us from our social agenda. Ha-ha commies.
Trying to decipher what this article was on about has given me a nosebleed.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0SA will one day be a bit like East Germany vs. West Germany was in the late 1980's. (Mercosur countries vs. Pacific Alliance countries).
Jul 12th, 2013 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All the have-nots in Mercosur will only be able to call the Pacific Alliance “the evil system” for so long.
Then their people won't be calling the PA “evil” anymore, they will want the same “material” situation as the PA. (Fast cars, shelves full of food, good train systems, shiny cities, working telephones, modern infrastructure, good TV, etc.)
Spying was really intense in East Germany, I don't think SA is like that. But those Mercosur populations will protest for more “freedom and liberty” like they did in East Germany. They're already doing it.
But if the PA admits new countries that are like Greece, and Spain, and Croatia, and France, just to become bigger, it will turn into “crap” just like the EU is.
What if one day soon, Argentina wanted to become part of the PA, because they were ruined. How would the PA countries react to this?
Mercosur is a tool for Foro de Sao Paulo. They want to reproduce the Cuban system in Latam.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It must be close to the weekend - the Argie Trolls are offline.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Midday 'Siesta', oops not much one can do for the remainder of the day - put away the laptop - see you on Monday...
Reading the statements over, it sounds like our beloved Graciela Rodrigues is worried about more defections to the Pacific.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Note that with Guyana and Suriname (not to mention Venezuela) in the fold, it is becoming clear that the movement is becoming more a Atlantic versus Pacific situation.
Which is all fine as long as there is less politics, and more actual trade facilitated as a benefit.
“They are Latinamerican brothers and companions in Unasur, but differently to them, we don’t believe that free trade is the instrument that guarantees inclusive development”, said the former Uruguayan Deputy Foreign minister.
Jul 12th, 2013 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's exactly the problem of Mercosul.
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