On a geopolitical level,
what progressives everywhere -- from South and
North America to the Arab world -- should worry
about is how, since the June 2009 coup against
Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, Latin America is being
turned into a giant laboratory testing all sorts
of "democratic" coup d'etat mutations.
Paraguay is one such mutation. Another one was the failed coup against Ecuador's Rafael Correa in September 2010. All these coups are against progressive governments who privilege social advances.
Not by accident, Correa, who was almost evicted by a coup, said that if it succeeded this time in Paraguay it would "open a dangerous precedent" in the whole region.
And in terms of poetic justice, nothing beats Correa -- the target of a coup -- currently studying the possibility of offering political asylum to Julian Assange, whose WikiLeaks revealed, among other things, how the Paraguayan elite was plotting their own coup.
In
Egypt, a military coup happened even before a
presidential election. Progressive Egyptians who
actually led the Arab Spring must be extremely
alert; Paraguay is showing how the rocky road
towards democracy may end up in a "democraship."
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Paraguay is one such mutation. Another one was the failed coup against Ecuador's Rafael Correa in September 2010. All these coups are against progressive governments who privilege social advances.
Not by accident, Correa, who was almost evicted by a coup, said that if it succeeded this time in Paraguay it would "open a dangerous precedent" in the whole region.
And in terms of poetic justice, nothing beats Correa -- the target of a coup -- currently studying the possibility of offering political asylum to Julian Assange, whose WikiLeaks revealed, among other things, how the Paraguayan elite was plotting their own coup.
Note: 1. See here
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