Argentina's President Macri calls on Venezuela to free political prisoners
Source: The Guardian
Argentina’s president, Mauricio Macri, has asked Venezuela’s government to free prisoners being held for political reasons.
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Macri made his appeal during a meeting of the Mercosur trade bloc in the Paraguayan capital. He had recently promised to suspend Venezuela from the South American grouping over its government’s jailing of opposition leaders. But that is no longer likely because President Nicolás Maduro’s government respected the results of Venezuela’s 6 December congressional elections.
Mercosur members say that the suspension would only have been in order if Venezuela had not accepted the vote results and broken the group’s so-called “democratic clause”, which says a member country can be sanctioned if it has “broken the democratic order”.
“Venezuela’s government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region,” Macri said during the meeting in Asunción. “There’s no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently.”
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/21/argentina-president-macri-venezuela-political-prisoners
Of course, the Venezuelan chancellor, Delcy Rodriguez, did not like this, and she and her delegation resorted of course to saying the same unsubstantiated bullshit lies about how Leopoldo Lopez is a criminal.
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