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The “Paraguay situation” and options as seen from Washington
By Eric Stadius, Research Associate at Council on Hemispheric Affairs and Peter Tase, Research Fellow at Council on Hemispheric Affairs.Two months after President Fernando Lugo’s impeachment, Paraguay has transitioned from reconciling its relatively benign political crisis to enhancing regional and international links politically and economically. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesgotta feel for paraguay surrounded by bullying bigger assh*les with no way out, thats tough at least the Falklands have 400 miles of open ocean from its nearest assh*le bullying neighbour, oh and a type 45 at its disposal. :)
Aug 29th, 2012 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paraguay needs to find itself some new friends.
This article is filled with deceit. Amongst them
Aug 29th, 2012 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 01) Paraguay will not be attacked by its neighbors
2) US sales to Praguay and will continue to be insgnificant. Brasil and Argentina are Paraguays main trading partner and the geography and scale of Brazilis influence will not change that.
3) The Peace Corps is a useless method to redistribute wealth in any country,
this is nonsence, it is not set up or capable of doing this but a an intelligence operations tool
4) The Chaco base is not “being retaken” by Washington and the U.S. army did not built it. The base was was built by the Stroessner regime decades ago as a an access to an isolated part of Paraguay where the regime could deploy incase of trouble with the oposition.
Any attempt to militarizae Paraguay will lead to the increase of Guerrilla activity, conflict with the Brazilian polulation, its borders and rivers restricted
, Paraguay will be so isolated that it's people will be destinbed to feed on Mate. This would undoubtedly lead to Russian and Chinese influence in the Southern cone, including deployment of forces.
Oh by the way, just try to navigate the Type 45 up the Parana. It will wind up looking like Swiss cheese.
As I warned before, the United States devised everything to have a military base in Paraguay. ve not so blind.
Aug 29th, 2012 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 black is white, up is down....and so it babbles on
Aug 29th, 2012 - 11:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The type 45 is at Falklands defence only, you have misunderstood me where did i say to attack with a type 45 ?? i didnt thats right! thats your twist not mine. it isnt an attack vessel as you should know its main role is carrier defence, silly.
so why would you want it to go up the parana anyway? is that because what you want, is to militarize the south americas? typical you come on here war mongering wanting to shoot up friendly not-attack vessels just so you can bring your imaginery communist friends to the party, all because paraguay has become sick of its neighbours sh1t and is standing up for its freedom of choice in friends? you cannot even get the russians and chinese to invest so dont expect troops you warmongering jiz stain.
The article makes some interesting comments but at other moments it just sounds like it was written by a 12 year old...
Aug 30th, 2012 - 12:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ violated their respective countries’ rule of law...Paraguayan Senate technically did not breach the constitution; Article 225 allows for a hasty removal...”
So they violated rule of law without breaching the constitution?? I thought the constitution was the law.
“...only 2 percent of the population controls the bulk of the wealth, which is inevitably measured by land in Paraguay.”
I've looked into this source and it is very deceitful. It considers a cooperative as a single entity or “judicial” person. In Paraguay the coops own large amounts of land, ranging from 50k hectares and up. However each coop is composed hundreds and even thousands of very small farmers owning a few hectares to a few hundred. So that source is some bullcrap.
Finally you can't use official government numbers to determine how much is exported/imported in Paraguay. To say that Paraguay would not have anything to export to the USA or EU is a joke. You open up free trade with those countries and industry will open up here as they have in other places like China.
What a horrible position for Paraguayans to be in. Imagine being surrounded on all sides by Dilma, Morales and KFC, all plotting and scheming with Hugo Chavez in the background egging them all on. Not an enviable situation to be in. At least the Falkland Islanders have the Atlantic Ocean between them and these tormenting clowns, and the UK is watching their backs. If I were Paraguayan I'd invite the US in, if only to p*** off the back-stabbing neighbours.
Aug 30th, 2012 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0This could get very interesting if Dilma and KFC try to stop US aircraft flying to Paraguay. Presumably they could fly or sail straight up the Paraná, and there wouldn't be a legitimate thing the hysterical leftist muppets could do about it. I'd like to see KFC or Dilma try to make 'Swiss cheese' out of US ships or aircraft. If things kick off we have a few assets in the area, and I'm sure we'd be willing and able to assist any NATO ally if it were attacked by hostile forces.
It is not an article on the Washington view of the “Paraguay situation”.!
Aug 30th, 2012 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is the view of the “Council on Hemispheric Affairs” which is based in Washington.
I felt that after visiting their site that the views portrayed were not as unbiased as the would want you to believe.
http://www.coha.org/category/all-countries/browsebycountry/categories-m-z/paraguay/
Not quite as authoritative as a US Ambassadorial WikiLeak,
Aug 30th, 2012 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but much more authoritative than any single status report coming out of any of South America's Southern Cone countries.
The “view from Washington” is unsurprisingly pretty biased, from seeing the April election as contest between the Colorados and Liberals with no left input (this isn't the land of the tweedledum-tweedledee Democrats and Republicans you know!) to calling Israel a “Western country” rather than what it is, a Middle Eastern terrorist state
Sep 04th, 2012 - 01:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0And so it begins
Sep 05th, 2012 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/09/05/paraguay-public-tv-fires-supporters-ousted-president/
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