Apparant Coup d'Etat in Paraguay

[Ogiol]

The Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has been ousted in what many sources are describing as a coup d'etat.

Somehow he was ousted by a vote in their séanad. The excuse is that he was responsible/wansn´t able to deal with some violent incidents in which 11 farmers and 6 police were killed.

Almost all other latin american leaders have come out against the move with Dilma Rouseff calling for Paraguays expulsion from Mercosur.

Oh, and the funny bit is that the guy who has taken over (ex vice-president) is called F. Franco. Sound familiar,

http://www.publico.es/internacional/...-fernando-lugo

http://www.publico.es/internacional/...co-en-paraguay

[Baron von Biffo]

Oh, and the funny bit is that the guy who has taken over (ex vice-president) is called F. Franco. Sound familiar,

Young FG members are mobilising as we speak.

[Ogiol]

lol.. I wonder if the bishops will be there to bless them this time

[PaddyJoe]

It looked like sixty years of the Colarado Party was over. Not so.

Leaders from Latin America threatened to isolate Paraguay after the nation’s Congress ousted President Fernando Lugo in a power grab that’s being compared to a coup by regional governments.

Lugo, a former Roman Catholic bishop, was removed from office in a 39-4 vote yesterday by the opposition-controlled Senate for encouraging land seizures and fomenting violence, 24 hours after the lower house voted to impeach him. Vice President Federico Franco, a one-time ally turned critic of Lugo, was sworn in as president as riot police held back thousands of Lugo supporters gathered outside Congress

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...y-land-seizure

[Ogiol]

It looked like sixty years of the Colarado Party was over. Not so.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...y-land-seizure

jaysus paddyjoe, Encouraging violence? land siezures??? That right wing rag certainly knows where its alliegence lies

[PaddyJoe]

jaysus paddyjoe, Encouraging violence? land siezures??? That right wing rag certainly knows where its alliegence lies

Excellent non partisan reporting:

Lugo, since ending six decades of Colorado Party rule in 2008, failed to build support for his policies of redistributing land in the world’s fourth-largest soybean exporter and was blamed by elites for a rise in territorial disputes

It is Bloomberg

[PaddyJoe]

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.....

Bolivia's government has decided to deploy the military to patrol the streets in the absence of police officers, who remain off the job to press their demands for higher salaries, the defence ministry says.

Defence Minister Ruben Saavedra announced that the Military Police had doubled the number of troops patrolling the main cities of the country to prevent attacks on private property and excessive drinking of alcohol over the San Juan holidays.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news...624-20vxv.html

[Sam Lord]

(Badly translated) statement of the Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador on the matter:

The killing by police of more than a dozen peasants possessed of land belonging to a powerful businessman was the pretext used to initiate a political trial that culminated in the resignation of Fernando Lugo in his role as President of the Republic of Paraguay.

Lugo fell as a result of a conspiracy of imperialism and the right, but also because of its own mistakes and political inconsistency with his offers.

The popular sectors led the former priest for President hopeful that his government will produce real changes in the society, promised to implement land reform and an end to landlordism, spoke to democratize the life of society and meet the needs of the rural poor, among others….. None of this fulfilled, his government was characterized by continued application of neoliberal measures, the violation of human rights was a constant and for this the government applied the so-called Terrorism Act, and again yielded to pressure from the oligarchy, corruption and the impunity remained.

To reach the presidency, Lugo was part of a coalition in which they were right parties and movements, such as the Liberal and collaborators of pass governments. His "partners" in the previous electoral fray now voted for his removal when considering that no longer was useful. For it, they were endorsed to a bourgeois Constitution that Lugo kept intact, which makes clear that the bourgeoisie knows how to prevent and protect resources and "legal." institutions Lugo served a bourgeois institutions and that fell on him.

Not only their political weakness was observed in only three votes in his favor obtained in the Senate, but also in the little popular mobilization to support him and the timid acceptance of their dismissal. Now he says to ignore such a resolution.

The events in Paraguay leave a great lesson: It is not possible to push a popular political project supported on right-wing forces, and political inconsistency causes the masses give the backs.