Argentina and Brazil agree to mediate in Venezuela crisis

[Zorro]

Brazil and Argentina will work together to help find a solution to Venezuela's political crisis, Brazil's acting foreign minister said Monday.

Venezuela is facing a severe economic crisis, with the world's highest inflation and shortages. Polls indicate most Venezuelans want President Nicolas Maduro out of office.

"We're on alert when it comes to Venezuela. Brazil and Argentina have an interest that includes mediation," Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose Serra said at a news conference after meeting with Argentine President Mauricio Macri.

It was Serra's first official trip since being appointed after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended pending an impeachment trial.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/argentina-brazil-agree-mediate-venezuela-231727074.html

[pmorlan1]

1. Yeah I bet they will

[COLGATE4]

2. What conceivable problem could you have with it?

[pmorlan1]

3. Lots of Problems With It

I don't have time to explain it all to you but here's a good place to start.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/The-5-Biggest-Puppets-of-the-United-States-in-Latin-America-20160523-0037.html

[COLGATE4]

4. Telesur. The official Maduro house organ.

That's about what I expected.

[forest444]

5. That both Macri and Temer are anything but impartial, and are both discredited kleptocrats besides

You wouldn't want those two to mediate a soccer game, much less a foreign country's political crisis.

That said, if there's somebody out there willing and able help mediate the Venezuelan crisis in good faith (probably Canadian or European; Jimmy Carter, possibly) - then more power to them.

[COLGATE4]

6. I would think that, given the seriousness of the situation in Venezuela

right now for the average Venezuelan that any Latin American country's officials good offices would be useful in trying to avoid a total meltdown. Of course it all depends on whether Maduro is interested in having anyone help him get off the ledge he's on. As to Jimmy Carter, I doubt that Maduro is interested in having any American seen as helping him.

[forest444]

7. While I doubt Temer or Macri are even capable of good faith, I can't disagree with the rest of it.

My hope is that Maduro may realize before it's too late that regardless of who's most to blame (government mistakes, plummeting oil prices, right-wing intrigue - probably a combination of all three), his situation has become hopeless. You have to know when to fold'em.

[Marksman_91]

8. The problem for Maduro is...

anything that he does which relinquishes some power to the opposition and agrees to dialogue which shows him to be weak will just mean that he and the rest of the Chavista leadership will loosen their grip on power even more. He knows that the moment that the PSUV loses the Executive and Judicial powers in Venezuela, Maduro's family, as well as those of the other prominent Chavista leaders, such as Diosdado Cabello and Jorge Rodriguez and the rest of the Chavez clan, will be immediately investigated and most likely prosecuted for God knows how many crimes. They could even be tried for high treason, considering they let Cuban military personnel interfere within the Venezuelan armed forces. Whatever path that Maduro decides to take, they all lead to nowhere nice, and he'll have to pick which one he hates the least. I think the nicest thing he could do for himself is to officially resign, and under protective custody, cooperate in revealing all the dirty secrets that the prominent Chavista families have regarding their multi-million dollar bank accounts. He and his family get some sort of amnesty or reduced sentence, while the biggest fish go to fry.

[COLGATE4]

9. Let's hope. I personally doubt he'll show any better judgement

now than he has in the past.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Right. Almost gagged seeing that headline yesterday. Two fascists want to help Ven. fascists

finally steal the country, and return it to the days when Venezuela had filthy dirtball assassins like Cuban "exile" Luis Posada Carriles (living like a slimy king in Miami now, after mass murdering 67 on a Cubana airliner) working there as the heads of security. (He was terrified at the thought someone might send him to Venezuela under Chavez because he knows there are enough living survivors of his torture to put him away forever.)

They (Temer, Macri) are part of the brown wave of dirty fascists trying to reclaim the Americas, but, as we all know, whatever gains they may seem to make now are NOT going to last.

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The world is aware of what their agenda is, and will find a way to thwart their filthy schemes, and gross dreams, in time, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever. Good WILL prevail over you evil bastards, Nazi dirtbags.

Instead of great concentration/torture camps as we've seen around the world, built by fascists, we'll see instance after instance of Nazi scums who have shat themselves to death, after living in fear of what will happen when their karma unfolds itself.

[Bacchus4.0]

11. Good for them. I see ALBA countries aren't doing shit nt