Maduro warns Mercosur: “... take us out the door, we go back in through the window”

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Tuesday that no one will be able to remove his country from the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), although the bloc's founders are considering a suspension for failure to fulfill commitments as an “Associate State.”  “Nobody is going to be able to take Venezuela out of the Mercosur ... if they take us out the door, we go through the window,” Maduro said during his radio show “La Hora de la Salsa.” He argued that Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are trying to “impose a sanction that does not exist” on Venezuela, which holds the presidency of the market but has not been able to exercise it in full due to criticism from the four founding members. More…