Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Paraguayan political system hermetic to President Lugo
Latinamerican ambassadors and the Organization of American States expressed on Tuesday their full support to the elected government of Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo who on Monday warned of a possible coup plot against his new administration.
The ambassadors were invited by Foreign Affairs minister Alejandro Hamed and given details of the alleged plot.
President Lugo accused rival politicians of having summoned a key military figure to a conspiratorial meeting to gauge support for their political ambitions. However the two main alleged participants said that the meeting never happened.
But President Fernando Lugo revealed he had evidence of the meeting and plot and said all Paraguayans need to be on alert for coup attempts by "antidemocratic and retrograde” elements.
Apparently those involved are former president Nicanor Duarte and retired general and former presidential hopeful Lino Oviedo, who invited General Maximo Diaz Caceres, liaison between the Armed Forces and Congress to talk about the issue.
“The governments of the countries here represented have expressed their unrestricted support to President Lugo. They have also expressed their full support to the democratic process and their absolute respect for internal affairs which can only be addressed by Paraguayans”, said Mexican ambassador Ernesto Campos Tenorio, who acted as the diplomats spokesperson with Minister Hamed.
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