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Venezuelan situation impedes Mercosur summit to take place in Caracas, says Almargo
Uruguay Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro said that the political situation in Venezuela makes it quite improbable that the three-times postponed and since delayed Mercosur summit can effectively take place in Caracas sometime in the next two months. Read full article
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May 20th, 2014 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Get these corrupt clowns out of power and Venezuela can move forward. The Boli-bullshitters are killing the country.
... they're killing four countries.
May 20th, 2014 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This would be a comedy if it wasn't so tragic.
May 20th, 2014 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mercosur is a joke.
May 20th, 2014 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what else is new in that tropical “paradise” ??
May 20th, 2014 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's all very sad.
May 21st, 2014 - 12:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Air Italiia and Lufthansa have now pulled out.
And Ford has shut down.
Nissan is going soon.
Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia.
Venezuela has 33 million arable hectares (potentially).
Venezuela farms 3.3 million hectares annually.
Venezuela has Pico Bolivar, the highest mountain in the whole of the Andes. A Caribbean coast and La Gran Sabana.
Venezuela has many different climates, in many vastly different regions.
Venezuela has no toilet roll.
Venezuela has no fresh bread.
Venezuela has no shower gel.
Venezuela has no fresh milk.
Venezuela has thousands of political prisoners.
Venezuela is so in debt to China that 50% of Oil Shipments to China are debt repayments.
Venezuela sends between $3 and $5 billion dollars in the form of oil and cash to Cuba. Annually.
Venezuela has to import flour from Colombia and Brazil, in order to
but it does have make arepas, the national dish.
75 per 100,000 violent death rate.
The highest in the world.
79% inflation.
The highest in the world.
Venezuela has to import beans from Nicaragua.
Venezuela has Bolivarianism.
My extended family only has pain, hunger and fear.
Venezuela has Boli- socialism.
My kids can't go to school because the teachers are either afraid to leave their houses or afraid the government will throw them in jail unless they teach the government propaganda. .....
Yes. This is enforced. All schools must 'teach' a set number of hours, (dependent on age of pupils), of the Bolivarian doctrine.
This is the truth about ALBA.
Thank you, ilsen #6.
May 21st, 2014 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Venezuela will make sure ALL this chaos happens to all Mercosur:
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brasil.
It is well under-way in ALL the ALBA countries.
Bolivarism is Venezuela's excuse for a larger aim.
What Venezuela is attempting to do is bring REAL poverty to the whole of South and Central America.
Thus, the 'cleansed bodies' and 'cleansed minds' can be filled with pure socialism.
@7 GeoffWard2
May 21st, 2014 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are quite correct in what you say.
I find it sickening.
One of the greatest achievement of Chaves was to leave Maduro in charge he was a genius he is sooo bad that Chavez will be the greatest Latin America hero. Thus Ensuring the fall of the Bolivarian movement with that move that only genius like him can achieve.
May 24th, 2014 - 04:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mercosur Summit...if it's not the CFK government screwing things up, it's Maduro in Venezuela. These two countries should be expelled from the Mercosur until they get their act together and have something positive to contribute.
May 24th, 2014 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately Venezuela no longer has anything positive to contribute.
May 25th, 2014 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Full. Stop.
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