MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Former Brazilian official blasts his country policy towards Paraguay as ‘arbitrary, illegal and incompetent”
Brazil’s former Foreign minister Celso Lafer said that Paraguay was ‘arbitrarily’ excluded from Mercosur with a sanction that is not in conformity with the group’s charter and warned Brazil is losing international credibility in supporting Paraguay’s suspension because it is distancing itself from International law. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesParaguay is having a bigger and more profound impact on South American integration.
Jul 15th, 2013 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Greater than much larger countries. Seems Venezuela and Argentina may have been right about something. The old colonial attitudes that larger countries have to smaller countries is a thing of the past.
At least somebody in Brazil knows the law.
Jul 15th, 2013 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pity Dilma does not.
Yet another eason for her not to be re-elected.
The last paragraph says it all . But it will not happen while Rousseff ,Patriota and that “ other ” character are in power !
Jul 15th, 2013 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good comments from Celso Lafer. Hope Brazil soon pays attention to him and another institutions of Brazil, as the way things stand now inside Mercosur, it isn´t helping any of it´s member states nor economically or politically. As Uruguay´s Vicepresident say, they need to recognize what isn´t working in order to deal with it.
Jul 16th, 2013 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0The “ other ” character I refer to is , of course , the one and only Marco Aurelio Vargas who is Rousseff 's foreign affairs main advisor ! In another article you will note that he is very unhappy that Lugo ( ex President of Paraguay ) did not manage to take the country down the “ happy and glorious ” Bolivarian path . In fact he is quite critical of Lugo . He can not understand why Lugo failed ! He forgets that Paraguay is not left wing by nature .
Jul 16th, 2013 - 01:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed, he does a very poorly thought political analysis, I agree with you Baxter, Brasil has no bussines deciding for Paraguay what kind of goverment they would like to have. An this a reason for Mercosur current problems, ideology has imposed itself so much that economic reality and badly thought political decisions are not even taken in consideration. It will come to ppl´s choice to change their current goverments and I think they can do that because it has happened before. Greetings :-)
Jul 16th, 2013 - 01:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0What is really worrying is that he writes as if he , and his country , have the right to tell other countries what to do . It is a worrying trend from a country which had a professional foreign service . The golden rule being no interference in the internal affairs of other countries .
Jul 16th, 2013 - 02:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed, but history has probed some countries at certain points of their national history don´t always endorse that principle as well as would be wished.In fact for world History that principle is relatively new and in a globalized world is alsmot impossible not to affect even indirectly other cointries, but that´s different to activelly affect a country for national interest´s.
Jul 16th, 2013 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0He himself doesn´t represent all of brazil but just a wing of the curret goverment and goverments of countries always have the capacity to change, be it persons, ideologies and point of views.
The problem is that the current Government could well win the next election and charming boy stays in the job .
Jul 16th, 2013 - 02:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, that isn´t sure, I don´t know much about Brazil´s politics but current popular presure sure isn´t helping the current goverment cause, if they still win it probably will be because the political opposition isn´t strong enough to put an adecuate representant. But even if that happens, to return to normality, this goverment will have to make some Concessions to both the ppl and political opposition, and for the way things look, even the business sector who isn´t happy either, that´s too much ppl angry so making changes, even small or gradual, is what prudence dictates, of course, this is just my oppinion.
Jul 16th, 2013 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hope you are right !
Jul 16th, 2013 - 02:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hope so too but be it Brazil´s current goverment or opposition, both will have to win over Brazil´s cost and inflation first and foremost. Greetings :-)
Jul 16th, 2013 - 02:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0I guess current government lacks trust of people right now. Dilma has only 30% of approval at the moment:
Jul 16th, 2013 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2013/06/aprovacao-governo-dilma-cai-e-fica-em-30-aponta-datafolha.html
If Aecio wins we will have a much more diplomatic chief of state in charge and most important a right wing president wich would definitely renew Brazil's policies.
WHY has it taken a year for someone in Brazil to say something that the intelligent commentators on here said at the time? Brazil has effectively descended to the level of argieland. And you can't get much lower than that!
Jul 16th, 2013 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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