Paraguay coup regime out in the cold Paraguay is a country in solitude – it cannot count on international recognition since the overthrow of its president, Fernando Lugo Federico Franco, illegitimate president of Paraguay By José Vales, correspondent for El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia) BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, SUNDAY JULY 8 2012: With a government in the most absolute solitude, without international recognition and only sustained by the Brasilia's decision to do nothing that would affect Brasilian interests in Paraguay, for Federico Franco the best that can happen is for time to pass. And pass quickly, until the elections on April 15. What seems much easier is for the regime to change itself, gradually but constantly, into a 'station of the cross', without a definite end in sight. For the analysts, the outlook in Paraguay, since the overthrow of Fernando Lugo via a questionable and giddy-headed impeachment, is not for the best. The ...

A less epic reality Gustavo Tambascio (Part of a series entitled 15-M: The intellectuals' opinion) Gustavo Tambascio, La Razon (Spain) May 15 2012 The 15-M, “the Spanish revolution”, is viewed from outside as the long-awaited re-emergence of the revolutionary Spain of 1931-39, when intellectuals and militants from around the world came to fight and die here. The reality is less epic, since the movement is still embryonic and its slogans vague. But it could be the start of an awakening that shakes the apoliticism and drowsiness out of the masses, which is a product of the paralysis of the trade unions and the alignment of social democracy with international banking. They are the hope of the future and even in their scattered ideology they have correctly identified the enemy: Banking, capitalism, the bourgeois parties, the right and the monarchy. Gustavo Tambascio Theatre director http://www.larazon.es/noticia/3971-una-realidad-menos-epica-p...

Radio San Borondon (Canary Islands) CARACAS, Tuesday January 10 2012: Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has rejected the interference of the United States in the Near East, while proclaiming South America free from “North American hegemony”, in a speech at the close of a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. At a press conference held in the Ayacucho room of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Mr Chávez warned of the US threat to Iran of accusing the Persian country of developing nuclear energy in order to pursue nuclear weapons “without having proof”. In the same vein, he warned that the development of events in Syria, where “The United States and its allies” are asking with ever greater force that the United Nations Security Council intervene. As an example of US interference in the region, Mr Chávez also alluded to the invasion of Iraq on the “excuse” of the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the war in Lybia under the pretext of prot...