Nicolas Maduro has faced widespread accusations of corruption. (Reuters: Carlos Garcia Rawlins)
Reuters: 'Do you fear me?': Venezuela's Maduro vows to gatecrash regional summit
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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WNU Editor: Venezuela's ally Cuba is backing Maduro .... Cuba Rejects Meddling in Venezuela and its Exclusion from America Summit (Prensa Latina). As to what do I expect .... he is a coward .... he is not going to attend. Almost every member of the Summit of the Americas has denounced him, and if he shows up many of them are going to make their criticisms of him public and in his face .... and he knows it.
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