Mark Weisbrot: Latin America – How the US Has Allied with the Forces of Reaction
Last week, Cristina Fernández’ warning against a “civilian coup” proved prescient in Paraguay. The country’s left president, Fernando Lugo, was ousted by the Congress in an “impeachment trial” in which he was given less than 24 hours notice and two hours to defend himself. All 12 foreign ministers from the Union of South American Nations, including Brazil and Argentina, travelled to Paraguay on Thursday to tell the rightwing opposition that this clear violation of due process was also a violation of UNASUR’s democracy clause. Brazil’s president Dilma Rouseff suggested that the coup government should be kicked out of UNASUR and MERCOSUR, the southern cone regional trading bloc. But the Paraguayan right, which had one-party rule for 61 years until Lugo’s election, was determined to return to their ignominious past. And they knew that they had one ally in the hemisphere they could count on
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Now who could that allay be???
Posted on 30-Jun-12 at 5:38 pm | Permalinksouth of the border right wing dictators and paramilitaries will always have a friend in US
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