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“It is
evident that the bloc’s [democratic] clause should be invoked because the
[human rights] accusations are clear and without doubt; they are not made
up,” Mr Macri said.
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November
23, 2015 5:41 pm
Mauricio Macri to urge
Mercosur to bar Venezuela
John Paul
Rathbone
Anyone
wondering how Mauricio
Macri might change the tone of Latin American politics got a clear steer at
the Argentine president-elect’s first press conference on Monday when he openly
criticised Venezuela and the democratic abuses of its socialist government.
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The
centre-right Mr Macri said he would seek Venezuela’s suspension from regional Mercosur trade bloc over rights
abuses committed by President Nicolás Maduro’s administration.
“It is
evident that the bloc’s [democratic] clause should be invoked because the
[human rights] accusations are clear and without doubt; they are not made up,”
Mr Macri said.
Mr Macri
said he would also ask Mercosur to press Venezuela to release Leopoldo
López, an opposition leader jailed after being found guilty of incitement
to violence and criminal association following last year’s wave of
anti-government protests.
The US
has called on Venezuela to release jailed dissenters and to safeguard the human
rights of anti-government protesters. Mr Maduro’s government is intensifying
attacks against opponents as approval ratings tumble amid a crumbling economy.
Previously,
Argentina has tended to close ranks with Venezuela and the region’s other
leftist governments, such as those of Bolivia and Ecuador. Cristina Fernández,
Argentina’s outgoing president, was a traditional Venezuelan ally.
Many
analysts believe Mr
Macri’s triumph could mark the beginning of a rolling back of the so-called
“pink tide” of leftist leaders that have governed South America during the
commodity boom of the past decade.
Slideshow
The end
of the Fernández presidency brings the curtain down on 12 years of leftist rule
in Latin America’s third-largest economy.
“The
stance of the new Argentine government will encourage other [regional]
governments to challenge Maduro and isolate his regime,” Pedro Urruchurtu, a
political scientist at Venezuela’s Central University, wrote on opposition
website Caracas
Chronicles. “In a scenario of economic crisis, shortages and dangerous
alliances overseas, a turn of the tides in Latin America may [create] pressure
[for] change in Venezuela.”
Official
media in Venezuela, where the opposition is expected to trounce the ruling
Socialist party at congressional
elections on December 6, did not carry Mr Macri’s remarks.
Unlike
other regional leaders such as the Colombian and Mexican presidents, who
tweeted their congratulations to Mr Macri, Mr Maduro’s Twitter feed carried no
mention of the mayor of Buenos Aires’s electoral victory.
Mercosur,
which groups Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela and Bolivia, has
spent about 15 years trying to forge a trade deal with the EU but negotiations
have stalled repeatedly, in large part due to Argentine protectionism.
“We have
to recover Mercosur’s dynamism,” said Mr Macri, “make progress in the talks
with Europe and converge on the Pacific Alliance,” a free-trade and
faster-growing bloc of countries that groups Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru.
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Bahiano
Nov 24, 2015
I really
hope they put strong pressure on those un-democratic, left-wing incompetents
running Venezuela, president Maduro is a joke.
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Freedomofthought
Nov 24, 2015
sometimes
nothing happens because nobody dares to say something. Mr Macri is
signalling change, in all fronts. Now Uruguay is not alone on this and
others may follow. It's the butterfly effect. I'm very glad to hear
these refreshing ideas, for the first time we will have someone with the right
stamina and intelligence. We should all support him because this is the
political Messiah.
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gkmuc Nov
23, 2015
Mercosur
is anything but a "common market". It has degenerated into a debating
club of left-wing governments that essentially reject free trade. Uruguay
wants a bilateral trade deal with the EU but is basically afraid to move
forward on its own.
Not sure
whether Macri's should spend much political capital here.
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Anastasia
Nov 24, 2015
@gkmuc
This will be an opportunity for Mercosur to become a true common market,
without the left-wing dialectic that has paralyzed it in the past.
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