"ASUNCION, Paraguay - Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo branded the country's new government illegitimate on Sunday and called for democracy to be restored as neighboring countries intensified criticism of his sudden impeachment.
Lugo, a leftist former Roman Catholic bishop, said his removal from office was "a parliamentary coup against the will of the people" and said he would back any peaceful effort to restore democracy in the South American nation.
Congress voted overwhelmingly on Friday to remove Lugo from office, saying he had failed in his duty to maintain social order following a bloody land eviction."
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"In a region scarred by military coups and political upheaval in the 1970s and 1980s, the rapid nature of Lugo's impeachment by an opposition-controlled Congress has drawn strong criticism -- especially from fellow leftists.
A senior Brazilian official said Paraguay would likely be suspended from the regional UNASUR grouping and from Mercosur, which also includes Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay."
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/25/12393340-fake-government-paraguays-ousted-president-fernando-lugo-defiant-after-coup?lite
The "opposition" is, as you stated, made up of the top 10%
no doubt funded by Bush Family Money/Carlysle Group funds, and the Right Wing here in the USA.
The Bush Family owns a huge piece of land in Paraguay,
and planned to use it as their
Escape Hatch if things got
too hot for them here.
The election of a Leftist certainly caused them a scare.
The pendulum has swung too far in Latin America.
The Right Wing
Death Squad government in Colombia only survives thanks to US
support. The Right Wing Oligarchs of Colombia are the third largest recipient of US Foreign Aid,
and a BRAND NEW "Free Trade" treaty thanks to President Obama.
Isn't it ironic that in a country that boasts about democracy
we have a Foreign Policy (Republicans & Democrats...no difference) that supports coups, and
demonizes the emerging populist DEMOCRACIES in Latin America?
You will know them by their
WORKS,
not by their
excuses.
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