Colombia was one vote short in OAS to address the border crisis with Venezuela

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Colombia on Monday was one vote short at the Organization of American States to summon a meeting of foreign ministers over the ongoing border crisis with Venezuela. Bogotá had requested the high-level meeting up as the country is seeking international support for an ongoing diplomatic crisis with its socialist neighbor. Read full article

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Captain Poppy
Those voting against and abstaining must be sucking on Venezuela's oil straw. Maybe Colombia and Guyana can acquire some “outside” assistance and deal with this Venezuela threat.
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 1 Captain Poppy

They could always form an alliance with the opposition in Venezuela and arm them. That would put MADuro on the back foot.

Civil war is going to come to Venezuela anyway, best it ends in the demise of the current crooks.
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Klingon
Can't they just get someone to whack Maduro and move on. Would be beneficial for all.
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
What point in taking this to the United Nations? The UN has no authority or power. Note the effect of UN Security Council resolution 502 in 1982. There's only one real answer. The Free World must act. Which countries would be willing to act to remove a dictator and free the Venezuelan people? I expect that, like Hussain, Maduro would be found hiding down a hole.
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ElaineB
@3 It wouldn't solve anything. Maduro is not running Venezuela now. The 50,000 Cuban troops are the clue.
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Heisenbergcontext
So Brazil has an opportunity to demonstrate some regional leadership, and it...abstains. Gutless.
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 04:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@6. “Leadership” from the murder capital of the world? From corruption and criminality? If you were to talk about spreading venezuelan intestines across the ground!
Sep 03rd, 2015 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
Tachira has been decreed by Mas-burro to be a State of Exception, and has been placed under Martial Law.
Which means, amongst many other things;
a) Police can enter homes/businesses without warrant
b) The Right to peaceful protest is suspended
c) No Elections can be held

Let's concentrate on the last one, c).
If in one State no Elections can be held, a National General Election would therefore be invalid as it would not include Tachira.
A perfect excuse for the Chavista Boli-garchy to suspend the December Elections that they are so scared of losing.

You heard it here first. Mark my words!
Sep 04th, 2015 - 12:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Heisenbergcontext
@7

The worlds 'murder capital', according to World Bank data is Honduras ( 90 homicides per 100 000 ). For your further edification, the corresponding figures for Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela respectively are: 28, 31 and 54.

Your last sentence is just weird.
Sep 04th, 2015 - 01:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
@9 H
According to independent sources in Venezuela, it has reached 79 per 100,000

Furthermore, on topic (!), former coup monger chavista strong-man, Diosdado Cabello, current President of the National Assembly, (and alleged leader of the narco-traffiker Cartel de los Soles), announced today the state of emergency has been extended to further municipalities of Táchira, the most densely populated Venezuelan state bordering Colombia. He said the border could be also closed along the states of Zulia and Apure. On the side: Cabello's brother is minister of Industry and Cabello's wife is minister of Tourism. His daughter often appears in flashy videos sponsored by the government singing for the “revolution” and the late caudillo Chávez.

The ombudsman of the people, Tarek William Saab, a man who is supposed to represent all Venezuelans but who is best known for writing poems to Chávez, said Colombia should ask the world to pay homage to Venezuela because Venezuela has accepted six million Colombian immigrants. He was referring to the millions of Colombians who have arrived to my country not just since Chavismo is in power but for many decades now. We don't really know how many they are as the Venezuelan registries are an absolute mess.

We do know thousands are fleeing from their homes under gross repression from the National Guard.
“Maduro has since taken increasingly disproportionate measures, including unilaterally shutting down the border for 72 hours and deporting Colombian citizens from Venezuela. He ordered soldiers to mark the homes of those Colombians living near the border, destroy vacant houses, and take the belongings of those who have been deported”
http://panampost.com/javier-leonardo-garay-vargas/2015/08/27/maduro-scapegoats-smugglers-while-colombian-refugees-suffer/
More bullshit and lies from Maduro here;
Nicolás Maduro: Colombia backs plot to assassinate me
Venezuela president makes claim but offers no evidence amid bitter dispute on shared border over
Sep 04th, 2015 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Heisenbergcontext
@10

The only realistic scenarios I can foresee in Venezuela's immediate future are civil unrest, a totalitarian state or a civil war, with Cuba as the wild card. Depressing.
Sep 04th, 2015 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
oops!
got cut off by 'word count'.
Nicolás Maduro: Colombia backs plot to assassinate me
Venezuela president makes claim but offers no evidence amid bitter dispute on shared border over migration
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/nicolas-maduro-colombia-backs-plot-to-assassinate-me
More insanity here;
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/nicolas-maduro-colombia-backs-plot-to-assassinate-me
“The alleged fortune of María Gabriela Chávez, daughter of the late Hugo Chávez, has recently stirred up controversy in Venezuela. Media reports suggest that Chávez’s daughter has US$4.2 billion stored in bank accounts in the United States and Andorra, which might make her the wealthiest person in Venezuela.”

Oh she has never had a 'job' by the way!

and this;
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/nicolas-maduro-colombia-backs-plot-to-assassinate-me

@11
I fear a mixture of all that you foresee. Depressing doesn't even begin to cover it.
Sep 04th, 2015 - 04:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro
Brasil is power! The true power!
Sep 05th, 2015 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Skip
Brazil is impotent. Truly impotent.

When other countries need Brazil to step up and actually be a regional power, Brazil is too busy masturbating to fantasies of what a great world power she is.

When Venezuela finally collapses, it will be the US and not Brazil that steps in to help clean up the mess. And the whole world will see exactly how impotent Brazil is.
Sep 05th, 2015 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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