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Jose Garcia

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Wed Dec 14, 2016, 04:22 PM Dec 2016

Suspended Venezuela tries to crash South American trade bloc talks

Source: Reuters

Venezuela's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez failed to get into a meeting of the Mercosur trade bloc on Wednesday after threatening to enter through the window if necessary, despite her country being thrown out of the group this month.

The meeting, at Argentina's foreign ministry in Buenos Aires, also grouped fellow South American nations Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay.

"If they close the door to us we will, as our president (Nicolas) Maduro has said, go through the window," Rodriguez told reporters outside the ministry.

"We will put on rubber-soled shoes and get in through the window ... Venezuela does not need an invitation because it is for the time being president of Mercosur."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-mercosur-idUSKBN1432B9?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5851a5ee04d30144dd136995&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

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