Socialist Argentina Helping People in Fascist Paraguay

Socialist Argentina Helping People in Fascist Paraguay
18 July 2015
| Andre Vltchek

One of the mightiest South American waterways – Rio Paraguay – is forming a national frontier between Argentina and Paraguay, two countries with similar cultures but diametrically different political systems.

Argentina is socialist, with free medical care and mostly free education. It has a progressive government. It sent its creditors, the World Bank and IMF, packing. It defaulted its debt, which was accumulated during the right-wing and pro-Western governments (Greece should study and follow Argentina’s model). It is increasingly close to other socialist Latin American countries, and also to non-Western powers like Russia and China.

Paraguay is a divided country. Even according to the BBC, fewer than 2 percent of the landowners are said to control 70 percent of its arable land. Other sources put the number to 75 percent and higher. Periodically, indigenous people demand their land back, and periodically, they get murdered.

Paraguay used to be the second poorest country in South America, right after Bolivia. But with enormous positive changes taking place in Bolivia during the last decade, Paraguay is now hitting the continent’s rock bottom.

The elites backed by the U.S. had orchestrated a “constitutional coup” and ousted President Fernando Lugo, a progressive liberation theologian. It happened on June 22, 2012. The country's short romance with socialism ended. Fascism returned. Paraguay fell back to its terrible historic role: once again it became a place that hosts the U.S. military bases, which promotes Western imperialism; a place from where all of South America is being spied on and manipulated.

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