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The carefully organized Paraguay coup

by Nil Nikandrov

The carefully organized Paraguay coup

28 June 2012
Under Barack Obama’s watch, Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo is the second Latin American leftist president to have been deposed from office in a scenario orchestrated by his political opponents and very close friends of the U.S. Embassy in Asunción. Nil Nikandrov predicts that this pattern of constitutional "soft" coups against defiant leaders - successfully tested by Washington in Honduras and, now, in Paraguay - will be extensively replicated in other countries over the coming years. The insidious interference by Uncle Sam in the domestic affairs of the region will apparently not be relegated to the ash heap of history any time soon.

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