Maduro retires Venezuelan ambassador from Peru for consultation

[spanza]

because Peru's foreign minister Roncagliolo said that Peru, currently presiding UNASUR, "calls for dialog in Venezuela and suggests that UNASUR evaluates the matter". He repeated that following the 14 April's election, UNASUR asked for "tolerance, dialog and mutual respect between the opposition and the Venezuelan government".

Maduro answered the peruvian government "not to interfere en Venezuelan internal affairs" and said that he "didn't accept the lack of respect for Venezuela's democratic process". Maduro finally declared "You just made the mistake of your life Roncagliolo, Venezuela deserves respect"

Article in Spanish
http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/130504/maduro-llama-a-consulta-a-embajador-en-peru

[Bacchus4.0]

1. how dare Peru suggest tolerance, dialog, and mutual respect

thats simply not the chavista way.

[joshcryer]

8. +1

[djean111]

2. If the opposition is staging protests, than they are not interested in tolerance, dialog,

and mutual respect. The only dialog the opposition seems to want is to cast doubt on the election. Well, the United States and the opposition, seems like.

[bemildred]

3. Maduro is correct. nt

[naaman fletcher]

4. Regardless of the issue at hand

I have never understood the "I'm not mad at you so I'm not going to talk to you" thing. It sounds very grade-school to me.

[bemildred]

5. Nevertheless, it seems to be a favorite move in international affairs for some reason.

Of course that can be very like grade school.

But here I simply see no reason for Maduro to be civil to people who won't accept his win. Why should he? To be nice?

[naaman fletcher]

6. Right,

I wasn't complaining about the underlying issue here, just using it as a prompt to bring up my longstanding dislike of this behavior (done by all countries).

[bemildred]

7. Then we agree, it's very immature.

But then it's theater, really, most of the time.