Venezuela

Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 11:55 UTC
Macri and Temer reaffirm commitment to strengthen Mercosur

Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his Brazilian counterpart, Michel Temer, agreed on Monday on the need to strengthen Mercosur and to make its rules more “flexible” to ”give a certain autonomy to the (member) states in their international relations.”
Thursday, September 15th 2016 - 10:40 UTC
Uruguay admits “consensus support” to remove Venezuela from Mercosur rotating chair

Uruguay's deputy foreign minister Jose Luis Cancela said that if Uruguay had not complied with the other Mercosur three founding members' joint declaration ignoring Venezuela's presidency and demanding it complies with the group's legislation and treaties, “Mercosur would have been launched into a period of full paralysis”.
Wednesday, September 14th 2016 - 08:28 UTC
Venezuela could lose Mercosur membership if it does not comply with the block's rules

Mercosur full members are working on a resolution calling on Venezuela to comply with all rules, regulations and international treaties of the block, which should be incorporated by next December, and if not the country could lose its membership, according to Uruguayan foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa.
Friday, September 2nd 2016 - 15:01 UTC
Brazil reacts to Maduro's statements and calls its ambassador in Caracas

The impeachment process that led to the removal of Dilma Rousseff from office on Wednesday, August 31, increased the gap among the continent's governments. While the U.S. said that the definite ousting of the now-former president of Brazil followed constitutional proceedings, the so-called Bolivarian governments – Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia – reacted by calling their ambassadors back.
Friday, September 2nd 2016 - 11:21 UTC
A million Venezuelans take to the streets peacefully to protest against Maduro

Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro flooded Venezuela's capital on Thursday in one of the biggest mass protests against socialist rule for more than a decade. Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall,” hundreds of thousands rallied across Caracas to demand a recall referendum against Maduro and decry a deep economic crisis in the oil rich country.
Thursday, September 1st 2016 - 10:29 UTC
Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia freeze relations with Brazil in support of Rousseff

Venezuela on Wednesday withdrew its ambassador from Brazil and froze ties in response to president Dilma Rousseff's removal from office.
Tuesday, August 30th 2016 - 04:38 UTC
Mercosur members who disagree and don't accept consensus “can walk out”...

Paraguay said Mercosur will continue to function and is waiting for a reply from Uruguay to confirm a collegiate presidency of the block, until Argentina takes the helm at the end of the year. If not, “Mercosur members are well aware that the the same way they decided to belong to the group, they can walk away...”
Monday, August 29th 2016 - 04:11 UTC
Venezuela and Iran announce new “dynamic bilateral relations”

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro named Chief General Jesus Gonzalez as the country's new ambassador to Iran on Saturday, while announcing the beginning of a new dynamic era in Caracas-Tehran bilateral relations.
Saturday, August 27th 2016 - 05:45 UTC
Mercosur founding members confident of a solution to the Venezuela situation

The foreign ministers of Mercosur founding members will adopt a common position regarding the current disarray of the group following on Venezuela's unilateral attitudes said Paraguayan economic affairs and integration deputy minister Rigoberto Gauto.
Friday, August 26th 2016 - 11:53 UTC
Nin Novoa exposes Mercosur disarray: “It's her; I'm the only minister she talks to”

The fracture in Mercosur was candidly revealed by Uruguay's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa during an agro-business conference of cooperatives in Montevideo when he received a phone call from his Venezuelan peer Delcy Rodríguez.