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Related: About this forumUNASUR no more: Pet project of Chavez goes under as no one is left to keep lights on.
UNASUR closes for bankruptcy amid scandalsPosted on July 4, 2018 in The Info by Martín Pallares
translated from Spanish
Now Unasur has received the final puntillazo. If in recent months he survived agonizing it was because there was still, in his pretentious and expensive building in the Middle of the World, a parasitic bureaucratic structure that had not been liquidated because it was useful to the concerted interests between the government of Nicolás Maduro and the former Secretary of the organization, Ernesto Samper.
Unasur was in a comatose state because most of its members suspended their participation, realizing that it has only been useful for the diplomatic and political strategies of Chavez. However, his definitive death comes because of lack of money and accompanied by a series of complaints about irregularities that include cases of sexual harassment, misuse of funds and abuse of power.
A document signed by the head of the Cabinet, Yuri Chillán, reveals the liquidation of the agency. "Taking into account if at July 30 of the current year there are not sufficient recoures to cover the needs of the last quarter of the year, the Entity will enter into cessation of payments": it says in an official letter sent to Bolivian Vice Chancellor María del Carmen Almendras, Bolivia's coordinator at Unasur. In the office Chillán makes a detailed summary of the asphyxiating and already untenable situation. It shows how the only countries that are contributing to the body of the organisms are Bolivia, Guyana and Suriname; the last two with delayed contributions of 2017. In total, of what is seen in the documents, they have barely reached 222,332 dollars. This reaches, according to internal sources told 4Pelagatos.
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https://4pelagatos.com/2018/07/04/unasur-cierra-por-quiebra-y-en-medio-escandalos/
Backstory: UNASUR was the grand dream of Hugo Chavez, to have as its members ONLY South American nations as members. It was planned to counter the influence of the United States in the OAS, as Chavez never saw eye to eye with Uncle Sam.
Nevertheless, every South American nation signed on, including the ones influenced by the United States, but it soon became clear that the show was about the populist/Socialist Pink Tide that was then enveloping Latin America. And as scandal after scandal rocked Latin America, it became clear that the Hugo's special club was losing ground. First the Kirchners (Argentina), then Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) were caught in corruption scandals. Then Correa (Ecuador), which left only Evo Morales and Maduro (after Chavez died of cancer) as the last of the hard core.
When Maduro insisted that UNASUR be united in their hatred for the United States (Venezuela was paying the most in dues), the other nations started dropping out, beginning in April of this year. Even the stalwarts stopped paying dues. Only Ecuador (where their building is located), Suriname, Trinidad/Tobago, Bolivia, Venezuela and for the time being Uruguay remain. Only Bolivia is paying dues, though not enough to even keep the lights on.
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