New Argentine leader rallies Mercosur against Venezuela
Source: AFP
Argentina's president-elect Mauricio Macri said Monday he would call for Venezuela to be suspended from the South American trade bloc Mercosur over its government's alleged rights abuses against political opponents.
"We are going to invoke the democratic clause against Venezuela," Macri told reporters.
That protocol allows a Mercosur member to be suspended with the agreement of all the others if it is seen to have violated democratic principles.
Macri added: "It is appropriate because of the abuses and the persecution of the opposition" in Venezuela, where right-wing rivals of President Nicolas Maduro have been imprisoned and barred from elections.
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Now this is gonna get interesting...
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)Right now it just looks, to me at least, like you do not know anything about the situation in Venezuela. So, just to have an intelligent conversation it would be useful if you can expand on your comment. Of course, that is only if you want an intelligent conversation about this issue.
"Rightist"??? What does it mean? Are you are calling those imprisoned in Venezuela and Macri rightists?
joshcryer
(62,297 posts)A wasted decade of high commodity prices under socialist governments. Opportunity lost forever.
Hopefully they don't go the Colombia route and select a far right winger.
cab67
(3,053 posts)having been to both Venezuela and Argentina, I'm with Macri on this one. I don't like his politics, and I think he'll cause a lot of damage to the Argentinian economy, but Maduro (and Chavez before him) are (and were) autocratic nutjobs.