Paraguay rejects Mercosur decisions involving Bolivia and Uruguay
Paraguay rejected the incorporation of Bolivia to Mercosur which took place on Friday at the summit in Brasilia and criticized the fact Uruguay accepted the group’s chair for the next six months skipping Paraguay, currently suspended from the regional organization.
In a release the Paraguayan Foreign ministry said that the incorporation of Bolivia is ‘illegal and void’ since it does not comply with the procedures established in the Mercosur charter.
According to article 20 of the 1991 Mercosur founding Asuncion Treaty the approval of the incorporation of new members to the group must be done with the unanimous decision of all members.
The ‘arbitrary and illegal’ suspension of Paraguay from the block has impeded the country from participating in these decisions despite the explicit statement of Article 20.
Likewise the passing over to Uruguay of the pro-tempore chair of Mercosur which also took place on Friday in Brasilia, according to Paraguay is “a clear transgression of Mercosur institutions”.
“This action violates Article 12 of the Asuncion Treaty which establishes the mandatory rotation of the Common Market Council presidency by alphabetical order and every six months”, and in this opportunity it was Paraguay’s turn.
Paraguay was suspended from Mercosur and Unasur last June following the removal of Fernando Lugo and his replacement by Vice President Federico Franco.
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Re: “President Franco considers Paraguay’s suspension ‘arbitrary and illegal’ ”. I was just wondering how he feels about legislative coups? Ummm.... I guess he thinks coups are just peachy.
Well, you must know a lot about the coup. Point me to a Paraguayan news site with the details.
the future place to be, and a growing membership,
starting with Paraguay,
who sends it,....
S.A.A.C.
South, American Action Club....
Conquerer mentions Nazi Germany, because you welcomed so many Nazi's after they lost the war. Many of them had committed the most terrible crimes against humanity. But many South American countries welcomed them, and their stolen plunder, with open arms.
Not only that, but certainly in Argentina, they use Nazi teaching methods and ideology.
They all may 'pretend' to be socialists, but in truth they are national socialists.
No true socialist would label the workers as enemies of the state. Only fascists do that.
As for Paraguay breaking the democratic process, how did they do that?
They followed THEIR constitution to the letter.
What we have here is the other members of Mercosur not liking that their puppet was removed from power, and a new stronger and more independent man put in his place.
Not only that, by Mercosur has BROKEN its own rules, and if it can't even follow its own rules, then it will have no credibility on the international stage.
At that is what is Mercosur is supposed to be about, forming a trading block in South America to match the EU and the USA, but when they are backstabbing each other like this, it won't be long before democracy is lost, and one nation tries to impose its will on all the others.
It's just a question of whether that nation will be Brazil (evens), Venezula (2-1) or Argentina (5000-1).
The reason the Argentina's odds are so high is that they are a complete basket case with no focus right now.
abstruse - difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; “the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them”; “a deep metaphysical theory”; “some recondite problem in historiography”
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as such,
their is no harm in going it alone,
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