Attacks to ALBA nations are connected with one another, experts say http://www.avn.info.ve/contenido/attacks-alba-nations-are-connected-one-another-experts-say

It is not an isolated fact that coup d'états have been staged in several member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, such as Paraguay, Honduras, Ecuador and Venezuela, said Monday member of the Venezuelan delegation to the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino), William Mundarain.Interviewed in local television, Mundarain said the events occurred in the last 10 years are responses of the United States' Department of State against sovereign nations in the continent."Latin America and the Caribbean freed from Superman's cloak. They are autonomous countries. Even nations which are not ALBA members today show a much more sovereign attitude, as in Colombia," he said.William Mundarain branded as a mischief the impeachment and removal from office of Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo because he signed the democratic protocol of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), allowed a meeting of young people in military facilities and an alleged order to police officers to pull a group of farmers out of some lands, things he has denied."That command was given by a court at the request of the prosecutor. So, there wasn't direct responsibility of president Lugo. But if it was so, it cannot become the cause to remove him from office," Mundarain said.The express trial against Lugo had already been pre-established, "it was a premeditated attitude, in a cold-blooded manner."The expert also referred to Bolivia's case, where the right wing tries to take advantage of striking police officers to destabilize that country."None of these events are isolated. They are connected with one another. It would be naive not to think that the situation in Bolivia is also fostered by the main powers. It happened in Ecuador, Venezuela and it will continue happening."Church, coup d'états Also interviewed in the TV program, expert Xoan Noya said that the Catholic Church may have taken part on the coup against president Fernando Lugo."It seems like there was an alliance with the church because the Vatican immediately came to response in such an absurd way, recognizing a de facto government and it means they are behind it."To reject the coup, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez ordered to recall the envoy to Paraguay and halt oil supply to that nation. In this connection, Noya said it was an accurate decision "because we are part of that international power that may revert this situation in Paraguay."With this measure, also taken by other governments in the region, the Paraguayan government will be forced to take some kind of decision because -Noya explained- in the case of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) this South American nation would be "practically isolated.""If all countries contribute with some kind of international pressure, that isolation will be unsustainable and they'll have to take some kind of decision," said the interviewee.Xoan Noya said the rings of power or sovereignty, such as ALBA, Mercosur, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and Unasur will influence what happens in Paraguay.Besides, he said the resistance of the Paraguayan people and the South American international community may change the situation.

Venezuela withdraws envoy, cut off oil supply to Paraguay

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President Hugo Chavez informed Sunday that Venezuela's ambassador to Paraguay would be withdrawn and oil supplies to that country would be halted, after a parliamentary coup d'état staged last Friday against president Fernando Lugo."We are very sorry, but we will not support that coup d'état at all, neither directly nor indirectly," said president Chavez during events to commemorate the 191 anniversary of Batalla de Carabobo, battle which that sealed Venezuela's independence and the National Army Day.Hugo Chavez said Lugo's impeachment was staged by an "obtuse bourgeoisie," described by Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro as a faction which "does not want to dialog" because "they have already taken a decision."Last week, minister Maduro was member of a committee of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) which traveled urgently to Asuncion to intercede on Paraguay's right-wing attempt to resume power.In this connection, president Chavez said the Venezuelan bourgeoisie does not recognize that the process against Lugo is a democratic breakdown and he reminded that the reaction was the same in those "who want to govern Venezuela when Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was overthrown and almost murdered.""Those are the bourgeoisies. They're used to humiliate people, used to walk over the Constitution and laws. There is not constitution for them, there aren't laws. But there are for us," Chavez added.The impeachment against president Lugo, Chavez said, was "express, summary, too much summary, illegal, unconstitutional.""They impeached him without proofs and also suddenly... Those things happen when bourgeoisies and the Right govern."The Venezuelan president accused Federico Franco, who was appointed as president, of using him to justify the coup, when he said Paraguay saved "from becoming Chavez's satellite.""Those are the same who became Paraguay a Yankee colony for years and backed up dictatorships, massacres, tortures and disappearances. They are the same. Paraguay's bourgeoisie," Chavez stated.