A look at how the coup government is opening up Paraguay to multinational corporate exploitation, from the Canadian Rio Tinto Alcan mining company to Monsanto's seeds.
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In order to understand the crisis in post-coup Paraguay it’s necessary to grasp the political weight of the nation’s soil.
Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river.
Many have assumed that the relation of money to politics is like a law of nature: the more money one has, the more political power one can wield. There is some truth to this claim.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has just been removed from office by Congress through political impeachment, an express trial that lasted only 24 hours. This manoeuvre must be seen as a coup to the democratic process started in 2008. Social movements are protesting in front of Congress as well as in various parts of the country.
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