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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 04:38 PM Feb 2018

Maduro vows to crash Summit of Americas

'Do You Fear Me?': Venezuela's Maduro Vows to Gatecrash Regional Summit
US News & World Report Thu, Feb 15 12:13 PM CST
By Alexandra Ulmer and Vivian Sequera



CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's unpopular socialist president Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday his right-wing Latin American counterparts showed intolerance by trying to exclude him from an upcoming summit in Lima - and he vowed to go anyway.

"Do you fear me? You don't want to see me in Lima? You're going to see me. Because come rain or shine, by air, land, or sea, I will attend the Summit of the Americas," Maduro told foreign journalists at the Miraflores presidential palace.

Peru's center-right government this week said Maduro would not be welcome at the April summit, reinforcing his growing diplomatic isolation during a crackdown on dissent and a brutal economic crisis in Venezuela.

Later on Thursday, Peru's Prime Minister Mercedes Araoz told journalists that Maduro "really needs to understand that in Peru we don't want to receive him."

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https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-02-15/do-you-fear-me-venezuelas-maduro-threatens-to-gatecrash-regional-summit

I'd love to see him try. He won't because he knows what would happen... "The Mother Of All Escraches"... but it would be cool to see the rotten fruit and vegetables rain down on him.
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Maduro vows to crash Summit of Americas (Original Post) GatoGordo Feb 2018 OP
He just going to land at a busy airport with out landing rights or permission? EX500rider Feb 2018 #1
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