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Déjà Coup All Over Again: U.S. is silent as Paraguay follows in the steps of Honduras
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Déjà Coup All Over Again
[The U.S. is silent as Paraguay follows in the steps of Honduras
BY Jeremy Kryt
Diplomatic relations in Latin America were rocked by the ouster of Paraguays President Fernando Lugo on June 22, after a hasty and controversial impeachment trial by the nations Congress.
Governments throughout the region denounced the proceedings as an institutional coup, and moved to sever ties with their soy-exporting, deeply impoverished neighbor. Meanwhile, in the capital of Asunción, schools shut down, shops closed their doors, and crowds of angry demonstrators took to the streets to protest the toppling of the first freely elected president in the countrys history.
Lugo is the third democratically-elected Latin American leader to be targeted for regime change in the last three years. A police-led uprising against the president of Ecuador was successfully put down in September 2010. A year earlier, in June 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by soldiers and flown out of the country. As in Paraguay, the Honduran Congress was used to legitimize a puppet government.
A moderate leftist and a former Catholic priest, Lugo had been dragged before Congress on vague charges of poor performance. Given 24 hours to prepare a defense, he had just two hours to present his case before the opposition-controlled Senate. The verdict was delivered almost without debate, and the man known as the Bishop of the Poor was told to clean out his officereplaced by Vice President Federico Franco, a member of the far-Right opposition. ..................(more)
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Déjà Coup All Over Again: U.S. is silent as Paraguay follows in the steps of Honduras (Original Post)
marmar
Aug 2012
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. Du rec. Nt
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)2. Bush bought 100,000 acre ranch there. Just his sort of place.
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)3. US is silent...
but I wonder what fingers we have in that pie.
Here's the thing, all US presidents have at least an ear on Latin America, and some horrible stuff has gone on in Latin America, under Democratic and Republican administrations (including Carter's).
This is going to be interesting to watch.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)4. oops our foreign policy sucks again. At least in that area.