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Colombia leaves UNASUR to protest inaction on Venezuela
[M.DW] Colombia has withdrawn from the South American organization set up by the late Venezuelan supremo Hugo Chavez in 2008 to counter US influence. The bloc was the accomplice of a "dictatorship," the Colombian president said.Colombian President Ivan Duque announced Monday that his country's departure from UNASUR would be completed in six months. In a statement on the presidential website, Duque said: "Today with precise instructions, the foreign minister sent UNASUR the letter where we denounce the constituent treaty of that entity and in six months our withdrawal will be effective." The president was blunt in his appraisal of the group: "UNASUR is an institution that has lent itself, with its silence and often with its complacency," Duque said. "We cannot continue being part of an institution that has been the greatest accomplice of the Venezuelan dictatorship." Duque follows other regional leaders from Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , Brazil, Chile, Peru and Paraguay who decided in April to temporarily suspend membership of the bloc. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-29 |
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