Chaotic Mercosur: Venezuelan minister turns up in Buenos Aires but Malcorra asks Rodriguez not to attend

Wednesday, December 14th 2016 - 18:02 UTC

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In what is turning into a Caribbean soap opera, Venezuela's foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez, with Bolivia's David Choquehuenca, on Wednesday morning turned up at Argentina's foreign ministry pretending to participate in an extraordinary Mercosur council meeting, to which she had not been invited since Venezuela is officially suspended from the group. Read full article

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Zaphod Beeblebrox
So what was their answer when immigration control asked them why they were entering the country? If they'd anything other than “wasting time” then they'd have been lying. :-D
Dec 14th, 2016 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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ElaineB
That answered my question in another thread when I asked if they would turn up like the uninvited party guest.
Dec 14th, 2016 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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DemonTree
The uninvited guest:

http://i.imgur.com/tjt2eo2.jpg
Dec 14th, 2016 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Heisenbergcontext
It's hard to feel anything but contempt for Rodriquez.Displaying all the ethics of an uninvited guest whilst Venezuela's diplomats haven't been paid for two months, they've been reduced to stealing christmas gifts to bribe the huddled masses and they are even losing influence with the Cubans: the oil shipments have dropped by 50%, Cuban medical personnel are returning home and their ideological brethren are placing their faith in tourism rather than Bolivarian largesse.
Dec 14th, 2016 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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ElaineB
What about the 50,000 Cuban troops in Venezuela? Are they leaving?
Dec 14th, 2016 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Don Alberto
It's not unusual for criminals to call their judgment “illegal” and to refuse to accept it - to no avail.
Dec 16th, 2016 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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