Reply #4: Nope, not Paraguay! They've gone leftist like most of South America.

[Peace Patriot]

In fact, their election of the first leftist government of Paraguay, ever, this year--headed by the beloved "bishop of the poor," Fernando Lugo**--likely helped to foil the Bushwhack fascist coup plot in neighboring Bolivia, this September. The U.S. (Bushwhack) ambassador to Bolivia, and the DEA, were funding and organizing fascist rioters and murderers, who want to split Bolivia's gas/oil rich provinces into a separate mini-state, to control the country's resources. They are also white separatists. Bolivia, a largely indigenous country, had at last elected an indigenous president, Evo Morales. The rich white landowners are racists, who have enslaved the indigenous population for centuries. Naturally, the Bushwhacks backed their cause, and tried to split up Bolivia. They may have planned U.S. troop support for these "freedom lovers," and the likely route for such support would have been via Paraguay. But Paraguay then elected Fernando Lugo, who wants the U.S. military out of his country, and certainly would not collude in the destabilization of his neighbor, Bolivia, nor in toppling Morales.*

Paraguay also rescinded its non-extradition law--which makes it much less of a haven for fascist war criminals--and also rescinded the immunity law for the U.S. military.

Bushwhacks will have to go to Colombia, their only 'friend' in South America, where rightwing death squads closely tied to the government, and to the Colombian military, have murdered thousands of union leaders, small peasant farmers, human rights workers and others. The Bushwhacks will feel quite at home. Their kind of country.

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*(The other force that helped foil this coup--besides Morales himself and his supporters (--he has a 60% approval rating in Bolivia)--was UNASUR, the new South American 'common market,' which acted swiftly and unanimously to back the Morales government and oppose the split-up of Bolivia. Morales threw the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out of his country, and UNASUR set up a commission to broker a peace with the saner elements of the rightwing opposition, and to investigate the murder of some 30 unarmed peasants by fascist rioters.)

**(Lugo has a 92% approval rating in Paraguay.)