CIA Orchestrates Pre-Election Campaign in Paraguay
Nil Nikandrov, Strategic Culture Foundation, Feb 8 2013

The marked increase in numbers at the US embassy in Asunción over the past year is being necessitated by the need to maintain control over the Paraguayan government. A general election is due on Apr 21. The pre-election campaign is in full swing and in order to «manage it by hand», the intelligence apparatus operating under the roof of the US embassy need staff reinforcements. Political forces potentially hostile to the interests of the US must not be allowed to come to power. Federico Franco, the acting president of Paraguay who, in Jun 2012, ensured the CIA-scripted «constitutional removal» of the legally elected president, Fernando Lugo, has fulfilled his mission. His successor needs to be just as reliable and just as manageable.

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