Mercosur farmers support Paraguay and call for harmonic relations in the group
The suspension of Paraguay and the intent to incorporate Venezuela to Mercosur represent a threat to the regional integration process, said the Mercosur Federation of Rural Associations, Farm, currently meeting in Santiago de Chile.
The position of Farm on the institutional situation of Mercosur was presented to the XXIII edition of the Agriculture Council of the South, CAS, which brings together the ministers of Agriculture from the region.
The Farm report says that Mercosur political decisions to suspend Paraguay and incorporate Venezuela to the current political scenario represent a threat to the ongoing regional integration process in which the countries from the rural grouping “have invested two decades of efforts”.
“Farm believes that good relations among nations are based on respect to each country’s sovereign decisions under the principles of non intervention and the free determination of the peoples, as long as the constitutional norms are strictly respected and complied”, says the association.
Further on it mentions that members from Farm visited Paraguay with the purpose of collecting information on the political and institutional situation in the country.
“We were able to confirm that in Paraguayan territory there is clearly a peaceful atmosphere with rule of the law as well as full exercise of public liberties and rights”, indicated the Mercosur farmers’ group.
Farm thus expresses to the forum of Agriculture ministers “the private rural sector deepest concern on the institutional situation of Mercosur. At the same time we call upon the governments not to spare efforts in the search of mechanisms that enable to re-establish harmony in relations among the block’s countries in such a way as to consolidate our position as a leading power in providing food to the world”.
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You really are a strange socialist. One who HATES the poor working class people, but adores those in power to the point of rabid fanaticism.
I've suddenly realised something. You only 'think' you are a socialist. By all your comments you 'prove' you are a fascist. You're probably a Nazi too, hence your preoccupation with the Reichmistress.
The farmers are right to be worried. The political decisions made by Mercosur over Paraguay break the rules of Mercosur itself.
Venezula CANNOT become a member of Mercosur until Paraguay agrees. Suspending them does not 'remove' this clause. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay are acting against the Mercosur charter. If Venezula gets 'in' this way, then Mercosur will be finished, but that's what Venezula and Argentina want. They want to carve up South America between them.
Sure they were plotting against Lugo to keep people poor because that is the way they get cheap labour to work on their farms.
They would love to go back to 1930 when they can have a whole family working all day just for food.
Now that their plan went wrong they are concern about how affected their business can be.
Brilliant analysis, Dany!!!! Soy is THE crop that uses the least employment. That is why it has become the most popular crop produced in South America.
Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest before making stupid comments!!!!!
With growth of 15% in 2011 (2nd in the WORLD), and expected growth of 14% for 2013, I think we are doing just fine. Just leave us alone, allow us to trade our goods, and we'll be just fine.
Pure ideological fantasy on your part
Yeah! Sure I see how they work side by side especially with a knife in his hands.
edant.clarin.com/diario/2008/12/19/policiales/g-01825085.htm
“Paraguay: Argentine soy producer killed in his farm close to the Brazilian border.”
#10 I would be what you consider a large farmer, yet we help out the local small farmers, campensinos. We build schools, provide computer labs and classes, provide jobs, send their kids to college, maintain the roads, supply the police stations, on and on. Why do we do this? Because they are our neighbors and we don't want to see people suffer; the government does nothing for them. Now obviously there are the radicals, a group of maybe 15k that want to create problems, but they are a minority and don't represent the rest of the campesinos.
#13 Yes there will be conflicts, much how there are murders, rapes, robberies in a city. How many stories i could pull up on a farmer killing a farmer or a campesino killing a campesino is much greater.
If you want to see what happens when you remove the large “white trash” land owners, take a look at the case of Zimbabwe; from the bread basket of Africa to starvation.
Again people, come and visit and see first hand for yourselves. Vacation to Paraguay is cheap and you are sure to have a good time.
I have nothing again Paraguay or Paraguayan and in fact I have been in Asunsión long time ago for 2 weeks.
I’m just against necons exploiters (mostly farmers and Bankers) that like to have and economic environment like 1930.
Having people in Paraguay with good consumption power will provide an internal market to develop industries, commerce, etc.
And to do that requires a state able to redistribute wealth and to promote such activities.
But with a big necon lobbyist body like exist in Paraguay I don’t have any hope of that.
Well I hope you are right and Paraguay will become very prosperous that will be good for the region.
Certainly I will go to Paraguay again.
: )
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