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Unasur member Guyana 'suspends' parliament for up to six months
The president of Guyana has suspended the national parliament to avoid MPs passing a vote of no confidence in his government. Donald Ramotar invoked an obscure constitutional procedure to carry out the maneuver. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesPity they shucked the Queen for a president.
Nov 13th, 2014 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Reaping what they sowed.
So, it's a democracy except when one of the elected heads decides he / she doesn't want an election?
Nov 13th, 2014 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0The article had it spot on: this guy's a dictator. I wonder if the constitution will be 'amended' in the next six months to make him Dictator for life.
Let me get this straight....one country, Paraguay, removes their president via a democratically elected legislative body through a vote process to impeach and they get removed from Mercosur for anti democratic actions.
Nov 13th, 2014 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then:
One man suspends the entire elected legislative body and the SA monkeys have no problem with this action being anti democratic? WTF!!!
Guyana is a founding member of Unasur and in the process of incorporation to Mercosur.
Nov 13th, 2014 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Will ParleSur call for a Special Session to discuss this?
This is what happens, when they leave us-for them,
Nov 13th, 2014 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0still,
think of what south America can teach them...lol
Come on then all you Argentine writers on mercopress- I dare you to explain how you can throw Paraguay out of the region assembly - and not thrown Guyana out until they reform/
Nov 13th, 2014 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or is it good old two faced latino again?
It's a dance known in South America called the Latin “two face step”.
Nov 13th, 2014 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Nov 13th, 2014 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually it is the Latin “three step”, one forward and two back, repeat until you get to 1833
Can't wait to hear the explanations, although I am not going to hold my breath.
The silence is deafening, LOL
lol
Nov 13th, 2014 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What was it that Pepe said about Paraguay when that happened......sometimes politics is more important that the rule of law? Something to that effect.
@ Briton
Nov 13th, 2014 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0South America can teach many things for them. Maybe we are not the best teachers, but we do not abandon our people, NEVER.
Perhaps England is not the best Metropole.
Perhaps abandonment is not the word to choose when discussing south america. The places I've SEEN in south america in comparison to the places I've also SEEN in North America........I would say you do in fact abandon your people.
Nov 13th, 2014 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0England does not feel responsible for their former colonies?
Nov 13th, 2014 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was only a matter of capitalist exploitation?
@12
Nov 13th, 2014 - 09:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You have not answered the question? The operative word is “ FORMER COLONY ” Do you not understand the word FORMER? Why one solution for one country and not the same for another? We do not have colonies anymore.
Is that Portugality is passionate about history, loves everything that represents our life on earth.
Nov 13th, 2014 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But we all have problems.
If it was a white ellite that controls the country it would be called Apartheid, but as its an Hindu one, its OK.
Nov 13th, 2014 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guyana chose independence 48 years ago and a republican form of government 44 years ago.
Nov 14th, 2014 - 05:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0After 4 decades, their mistakes are their own; not the UK's!
Oh dear, not many Latams debating this thread, must be because there is no defence for double standards.
Nov 14th, 2014 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but we do not abandon our people, NEVER
Nov 14th, 2014 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and to be fair,,, ,neither will we..
You say LatAms never abandon their people but I remember in 1982 when Britain was in a desperate struggle to process all Argentine military members that were surrendering that Argentina refused to cooperate with their repatriation and when they eventually returned the country turned their back on them. Just like it turns its back now on all the Argentines trying to survive on a U.S. Dollar a day or less.
Nov 14th, 2014 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentine government focuses on subsidising the lifestyles of those people who they need to support their current governing party. Everyone else can go to hell.
So let's be clear that rule doesn't apply to all Latin America and I think your governments base their decision on how much support they need from the groups effected.
To say nothing of the fact that many Lat Am countries ignore their own laws to prevent any end to the persecution of their South American citizens. While the LatAms are rewarded thecSouth Ams are shat upon by a great height because of their ethnicity in many Lat Am countries.
There seems to me that there are so many organisations in South America, that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing, Guyana should be thrown out of them all as Paraguay was thrown out. Although they wanted to stay in the commonwealth, maybe time for the UK to throw them out.
Nov 15th, 2014 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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