Paraguay urges OAS to take a position on the country’s situation
Paraguay urged the Organization of American States, OAS, on Wednesday to say whether it will be taking measures or not against the country following the removal of Fernando Lugo from the presidency, a political incident that has reverberated in the whole continent.
“Paraguay can’t go on waiting eternally for a decision. We have been very flexible on the matter” said Paraguayan ambassador before OAS Bernardino Saguier during a meeting of the continental organization at its headquarters in Washington.
Although the ambassador admitted that there was no consensus yet among member countries, he regretted the OAS had yet to make a statement on the political impeachment of Lugo by the Paraguayan congress that had him removed and replaced by his Vice president Federico Franco.
A group of countries under the leadership of Venezuela including Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia has proposed to suspend Paraguay from OAS, but another group with the US, Canada and Mexico want to carefully check and balance any decision.
“For us there is urgency in making a decision on the issue and convening a meeting that is conclusive” so as to give Paraguay certainty, said the Mexican ambassador, Jose Hernandez, who as most of the 34 delegates supports the idea of holding a special meeting next August 22.
The president from the Permanent Council, the OAS political body, Jamaica’s Stephen Vasciannie pledged that the date would be confirmed ‘very soon’, once all countries give their OK.
OAS has already held three extraordinary meetings on the Paraguayan situation.
Ambassador Seguier underlined on Wednesday that Paraguay lives “in peace and calm, in an absolutely normal situation with full implementation of institutions and absolute respect for all political and human rights”.
OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza who headed a fact finding mission to Paraguay three weeks ago stated personally, that he was against the OAS suspending the country because of the economic implications which it would entail.
However Unasur and Mercosur effectively suspended Paraguay until the next general election scheduled for April 2013, in reprisal for what they described as a “democratic rupture” of the country’s institutional process.
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This was a group-presidential-punishment of the Left, saying
”Don't you dare to democratically replace (or attempt to otherwise terminate) us presidents; we will gang up on you to make you and your country suffer and fail.”
At first he did reasonabbly well.
NOW he is at the end of most Uruguayo 'leashes' and is badly damaged by these banana republic stunts he keeps supporting.
We badly need a new government who will at least steer a better course through this load of crap they call Mercosur.
Mark my words...............
I have meet dozens of Expat pensioner turnips like you...
I have meet “you” in Mejico, in Costa Rica, in Panamá, in Ecuador, in Brazil and in Argentina…..
Angry, old and ugly souls that can’t contribute with anything positive to our societies….
Do yourself (and us) a biiig favor....
Pack your bags and go home.
You should have been here before 2002 to see how the right wing does things :)
What Mr Think typed is correct, because as an expat (fancy word for immigrant)..myself, I see them here in the US and I avoid them as much as I can, cause they are an embarrassment and majority contribute shit to community.
Will those ugly brits go back home? No, because they are full aware that it's a shit hole.
Get over it. I'm an expat as well, but personally I think Pepe has done an extraordinary job, all things considered. You know that saying dawg, “...before you judge [or are even CAPABLE of judging] another man [or country], walk a mile in his shoes [live there awhile]”. I'll close with another, “It's better to be assumed a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”.
Fear mongering diplomacy about Mercosur becoming the force in South America and dictating terms won´t work. Already blocs like the Europan Union have been proven worthless. Chile, Mexico, the US, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and other countries in the Pacific are already drafting what will become the largest Free Trade region in the world. Paraguay can join the Pacific Alliance, can pursue a FTA with Chile, Colombia, the U.S., Mexico, they can do many things and they more options that what Dilma and Cristina would like. And they will regret Paraguay leaving the Mercosur.
I have meet “you” in Mejico, in Costa Rica, in Panamá, in Ecuador, in Brazil and in Argentina…..Angry, old and ugly souls that can’t contribute with anything positive to our societies…” Think (#6)
Some of us ex-pats do try hard to improve matters, but were are in someone else's country and this limits what can be done.
Though I have been invited to stand on an anti-corruption ticket for a position that would need to be voted in by the public.
I, of course, have to say “ineligible”.
'An angry, old and ugly turnip', Think?
Well, 'angry' and old. No 'turnip'! And, I think, still quite handsome, in a Sean Connery type of way ;-)
I don't Think aka The Turnip In Chief AND Fido Dildo (the retard [to use his phrase]) and Windrider.
I know it must be terribly hard for the ugly, bitter old liar that is TTIC to realise that what I post is actually the truth. I have done the things I say and have run a very large engineering business with my fellow directors.
Unlike many on here (especially Fido Dildo) I understand finance from firsthand experience and other people have benefitted financially from that wealth and my charitable efforts (can any of you match that?).
Windrider. I don't know you so I will be gentle.
Try taking pills for the wind: it is making you a windbag. I pay taxes in Uruguay and have lived here a while (16 months). Also, try using original quips instead of other, unatributed and bastardised ones. “It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain”
Guzz.
If the right were bad, how come virtually ALL the 'recent' improvements were their ideas?
Please tell me ONE thing that Pepe has originated and taken through to finality that has ‘improved’ things.
You know perfectly well, that comment No.(6) was not minted for you...
Yes, you can sometimes be an Insufferable Provocative British Neoliberal Besserwisser............... but you are also blessed with a not negligible amount of Social Intelligence, duly complemented and improved by your Brazilian Social(ist) in-laws and your lovely and tolerant wife….
Don't take me for a fool. Plan Ceibal, the house projects for the poor... The right will get no credit for decades of promises that never ended up in anything but money in their own pockets. Right wing talks a lot about improvements, I'll give you that. The left wing makes it happen...
I think that is a little unfair, I don't take you for a fool.
Perhaps I think you are wrongheaded at times but that is far from thinking you foolish.
Housing is always a contentious issue and wide open to 'bribe' the electorate by any political party.
We were fed up with labour 'announcing' they were going to build 4,500 houses per year. Never happened.
OK. But just what has Pepe done? This is a serious question and I just cannot fathom the answer out myself. I was impressed when he came to power. We were going to the inauguration until the cow Clinton took it over and made a fcuking circus of it.
But just lately Pepe seems to have lost his way. I wasn't swayed by the 'I have to swallow snakes and frogs' comment and the ‘Presidents have to forget the law and rule' statement was just plain dictatorial.
Fingers crossed if the Chin actually construct the Atlantic deep sea port due to his efforts I think that would be comfort enough and he will have achieved a 15 year old dream. With 'one bound' Uruguay would shake the mantle of Argentina off her for good.
You can't deny what Pepes government has achieved up to this day, look at poverty, education, energy sector. Things sre moving like never before, and people are noticing it in their pockets. Far more important than money is that people are a lot happier though :)
I agree with you that Pepes words were a bit unlucky, but knowing the man, last thing you can call him is dictatorial...
Thank you for your considered reply.
I most certainly do not deny what Pepe has done with the economy (basically he got closer to the available investment) and that was what confused me regarding the Mercosur antics.
I now have a greater understanding, many thanks. :o)
Living in the country as you do (NOT) you would know about that, wouldn't you?
You have not denied you are a Glaswegian.
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