Paraguay: prosecutor calls Lugo for Maduro probe
http://www.kwqc.com/story/19102779/paraguay-prosecutor-calls-lugo-for-maduro-probe>>ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) - Paraguay's former President Fernando Lugo must testify in an investigation over alleged Venezuelan meddling during his impeachment, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Lugo was voted out of office June 22 by a hostile Congress after a fast-track trial over his role in a deadly land eviction. He was replaced by his vice president, Federico Franco. But the poor, landlocked country's new government has accused Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro of trying to persuade Paraguayan military leaders to rise up in support of Lugo.
"The former president must show up at the office of the public prosecutor by Monday to continue with the probe," said Prosecutor Stella Mary Cano, who has already heard the testimony of four generals as well two former Lugo officials. Cano said if Lugo fails to show up, eventually "we could use the public force to bring him in following the law."
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Maduro traveled to Asuncion a day before Lugo was ousted from the presidency as part of delegation of ministers from the Unasur South American group that met with lawmakers to try to avert his ouster.
According to testimony by Marcial Congo, the former leader's private secretary, Maduro briefly met with military leaders during Lugo's hasty trial. Paraguay's Defense Minister Maria Liz Arnold has said the Venezuelan official asked them to back the former Roman Catholic bishop-turned-president.
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...and the transglobal corporate monsters and war profiteers that it serves, to "divide and conquer" Unasur. This is the opening shot, with the fascists in Paraguay as the servants of those same interests.
What OUGHT to be investigated in Paraguay is NOT Unasur's efforts to fend off a coup d'etat--that is Unasur's appropriate role--but rather the U.S./transglobal corporate/war profiteer payoff's that are going on.
This coup in Paraguay appears to be based on the Honduras template--fake "constitutional crisis," to get rid of the popularly elected president who favors workers and the poor and who had strongly allied with other leftist leaders and governments for the mutual benefit of their countries. In Honduras' case, the target was ALBA, the Venezuela-Cuba organized regional trade group for Caribbean countries. Honduras withdrew from ALBA soon after the coup d'etat, a coup that was quite obviously designed in Washington D.C. The coup in Paraguay is very similar. The target in this case is Unsaur and in particular its most powerful members--Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina--who were vital to Unasur's formation and have worked hard on pulling that South America-wide organization together and making it an effective force for LatAm independence. I believe that Washington is behind this coup (as with Honduras) and that U.S. taxpayer dollars are involved as bribes and enticements.
Fernando Lugo opposed a U.S. military presence in Paraguay. The Pentagon and its war profiteers very much want to reverse that. They want a base of operations in the heart of South America, to make trouble for Paraguay's neighbors (which all have leftist governments), just as Honduras has been used in the past, and will be used now, for disruption and outright war against its neighbors in Central America.
Paraguay sits on the biggest aquifer in South America and provides hydroelectric power to Brazil and other countries. The U.S. wants control of that aquifer, through a toady government, as it wants control of all major resources, on behalf of the transglobal monsters who rule over us.
Fernando Lugo--with Lula da Silva's help--renegotiated the hydroelectric power contracts with Brazil's Big Energy corporations--contracts that were unfair to Paraguay--and designated the increased revenues to help Paraguay's poor (it's the poorest country in LatAm). Those Big Players in Brazil want to reverse that and, just like the U.S. and its transglobals, wants control of the resource.
Lugo opposed toxic pesticide spraying that poisons poor farm workers and the environment. The Big Soy elite, Big U.S. Ag and Big U.S. Chem want to do as they damn please to the land and the people. The local wealthy landowners' interests and these others come together on this issue as well.
There are many transglobal interests and local wealthy landowners who stand to benefit, big time, from this coup. But the biggest motive--something they all agree on--is to prevent the new leftist leaders, who dominate the region, from pulling together for combined political/economic clout, with goals of social justice and independence. This means attacking Unasur. And THAT overarching strategy, in my opinion, is the work of former CIA Director, now Secretary of 'Defense'--and also a Bush Senior associate ("Old CIA"
--Leon Panetta.
This new twist to the coup government in Paraguay--their attack on Unasur's peacemaker, Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, and attempt to use Fernando Lugo to do so (also to further punish Lugo for being an advocate of the poor)--confirms my worst suspicions about the coup, and I think it is only a matter of time before the hidden hand behind it is uncovered.
