LatinNews Daily - 28 January 2011
Refusing Venezuela is 'idiotic' says Mujica
Development: On 27 January, Uruguay's president José Mujica,
on official visit in Venezuela, remarked that not allowing Venezuela to join the
Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) was “idiotic".
Significance: Mujica's left-wing Frente Amplio
(FA) government is becoming increasingly outspoken and eager to align itself
behind Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez . Mujica's remarks come almost
immediately after some controversial comments on the governments of Peru and
Colombia from Uruguay's vice-foreign minister, Roberto Conde. Conde said that in
his opinion the governments of Peru and Colombia represented a “regression for
the region", characterising them as “militarist and fascistic"
governments.
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