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Venezuela’s Chavez the less convincing leader for Paraguayan ‘twitters’

Paraguayans are not attracted by red shirts and berets

A “twitter” opinion poll organized by Paraguay’s main daily newspaper ABC Color to evaluate which Latinamerican presidents are most rejected or less convincing delivered several predictable results but also some surprises.

The South American leader who attracts less support according to ABC Color ‘twitters” is Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez with 74%, followed closely by the Cuban brothers Fidel and Raúl.

In third place comes Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, which collects a 43% rejection index and not so distant Bolivia’s populist president Evo Morales with 37%.

Colombia’s conservative Alvaro Uribe and Paraguay’s former bishop and president Fernando Lugo are ranked with 27%.

Sebastián Piñera and successor of Chile’s Michelle Bachelet follows with 21%.

The ranking is closed by Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, Peru’s Alan García and Uruguay’s Jose Mujica, all of them with an 11% rejection index.

The leader less mentioned among Latinamerican presidents is Brazil’s Lula da Silva.
Although not necessarily true the inverted order could mean Lula da Silva and Mujica are among the most popular leaders by ABC Color twitters.

However this could also be misleading in the case of Lula da Silva, because Paraguay has a long list of pending (grudges?) with neighbouring ‘big brother’ Brazil.

In the case of President Mujica the consideration is possible because Uruguay and Paraguay share a long historic tradition of close links as the smaller countries between regional giants (Argentina and Brazil) and as junior members of Mercosur.