Paraguay Elections

                   

MIAMI HERALD: Paraguay's future

sacbee.com     23 hrs ago          

The accession of former Roman Catholic Bishop Fernando Lugo to the presidency of Paraguay is potentially the best thing that has happened to this landlocked South American country in the post-war era. The 57-year-old one-time...                    

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Australia Labor Party's Chinese Connections

newsblaze.com     yesterday   14 related          

Australian Labor government appears to toe the official Chinese Communist Party line, assisting China with its Olympic bid, allowing it to get away with ignoring media freedom and human rights abuses, banning Falun Gong...                    

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Open-necked in Asunción

newstatesman.co.uk     18-Aug-2008   1 related          

The western media has ignored nuance surrounding the first address of Paraguay's president Lugo, says Hugh O'ShaugnessyMost of the Western media don’t do symbolism – or rather, can’t do symbolism. This was demonstrated by their...                    

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Mark Weisbrot: Should Obama, If Elected, Make a Clean Break With Bush's Latin America Policy?

huffingtonpost.com     18-Aug-2008   3 related          

In the last decade political change has swept across most of Latin America. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela - voters rejected the "Washington Consensus" economic policies after more...                    

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Lugo Pledges Aid To Paraguay Poor

theimpudentobserver.com     18-Aug-2008   4 related          

Paraguay is among the poorest nations in South America and during the past 61 years the country has been ruled by wealthy landowners and the urban elite. The election of Fernando Lugo hopefully marks a birth of a new era in...                    

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miamiherald.com: Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, left, reacts as Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez drinks mate, a traditional herbal tea, during a rally in San Pedro Saturday miamiherald.com

Venezuela's Chávez seeks to pull new Paraguay leader into his orbit

miamiherald.com     17-Aug-2008   1 related          

This dusty farm town, where Fernando Lugo ministered to the poor as its activist, left-leaning bishop, welcomed him back Saturday as Paraguay's unlikely president with hugs, cheers and exhortations that he not fail them.                    

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Australia Labor Party’s Chinese Connections

epochtimes.com     16-Aug-2008   4 related          

By Denis Charleton Epoch Times Staff Aug 15, 2008 Western media recently publicised the 21 instructions for Olympic reporting issued to their Chinese counterparts by the Beijing propaganda bureau. Being more of a cricket and...                    

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Paraguay leader embraces failed polcies of socialism

prairiepundit.blogspot.com     16-Aug-2008   2 related          

NY Times: Fernando Lugo, “the bishop of the poor,” as he is known here, was sworn in Friday as president of Paraguay, promising to give land to the landless and to end entrenched corruption after six decades of one-party...                    

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Samareh Hashemi attends Paraguayan president's swearing-in

irna.com     16-Aug-2008   2 related          

Senior advisor to the Iranian president, Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi attended the swearing-in ceremony of new Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo on Saturday (Friday, in Paraguay). Nine heads of state, including Venezuelan President...                    

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Jungle Mom and Hugo Chavez ...Together again!

jungle-hut.blogspot.com     16-Aug-2008          

Asunción is a city of great history. At one time, for nearly 200 years, it was the most important city of the continent but was replaced by Buenas Aires in 1776, the same year we in the USA declared our independence. Yesterday...                    

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