Paraguayan Congress warns Lugo on Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur

Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 02:58 UTC

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The president of the Paraguayan congress Senator Jorge Oviedo Matto said that Paraguay should withdraw from Mercosur if the block during its Tuesday summit in Montevideo agrees the incorporation of Venezuela “eluding the approval of the Legislative as indicates the Constitution and the Mercosur charter”. Read full article

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Redhoyt
Democracy in action ?
Dec 20th, 2011 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Paraguay’s Legal Advisor says : “This administration position is very clear, we believe Venezuela must be incorporated to Mercosur but we are . . . clear . . that this must be done in the framework of the Constitution” - which says that any modification to the Mercosur charter must have the approval or rejection from Congress - who consistently vote against it.
Mujica is pushing another system for a direct incorporation of Venezuela to the bloc. If this is tabled, the Opposition will sponsor a bill to have Paraguay withdraw from Mercosur.

Paraguay's intransigence is against Chavez himself, as a dictator, and this is fully understandable.

But what is totally unclear is WHY Mercosur is so keen to have Venezuela in the club at all.
Dec 20th, 2011 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Wireless
Oil and money, nothing clearer, they are all getting a bung.
Dec 20th, 2011 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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jerry
I applaud the Paraguay congress for standing behind their constitution.
Dec 20th, 2011 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Tom
There is a sweet irony here that it is Paraguay coming to the defense of democracy and utilizing MERCOSUR's Democracy Clause and the Protocol of Ushuaia to thwart Venezuela's full incorporation into the Common Market of the South. After all both legal instruments were drafted in the mid-1990's to defend the Wasmossy government then in power in Asuncion from a military coup instigated by General Lino Oviedo.
Dec 21st, 2011 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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