The Tyranny of Soy in Paraguay

Ben Dangl: Since being elected in 2008, the 'Red Bishop' Fernando Lugo has been unable, or unwilling, to deliver on promises made to the landless farmers who got him to power in the first place.

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Produced by Jesse Freeston

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• Lugo
• Paraguay
• asuncion
• cargill
• archer
• daniels
• midland
• monsanto

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

"Not shown political will" ?? Dangl, I'd love to see you try and run Paraguay with the rightwing opposition controlling the congress, including your own vice-president and so on.

Thanks Jesse for remembering that Lugo is treading a thin line between being able to govern at all and being overthrown by those with real power in Paraguay.

Democratisation is a process,and Lugo is an essential part of it, much of the struggle being up to those acting from the ground up.

[Lexman00]

Ben Dangl is a jackass. He explains everything from his own bias self made point of view. The Real News had to fill in some information because Ben didn't. I hope you guys heard when the Real News said the opposition "the elites" controlled congress, the military, and the corporate sector. Fernando Lugo is trying to fight against the corruption but he underestimated the opposition by naively thinking he could reason with the elites with peaceful and honest negotiation. Now his position is worse.

[ivebeenburned]

The Bush family is buying up land there and plan on exploiting their water for profit .

Bush also is using commandos from Blackwater to oppress the people who are fighting back.

FIGHT THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!!!!

[doobtribe]

@asperin Oh and i forgot, i do want a (just) government plan for a regulated business environment, or do you want a less regulated business environment like china where your next milk bottle/cartridge maybe your kids last? I don't thank you.

[doobtribe]

@asperin Oh i see your problem, you see law's simply as bad laws who exist to protect monopolies to be used as a legal weapon agaisn't smaller economies/business's, hence your "economic regulation&corruption rises" claims, they are true in some countries, including the USA (specially in patents (unfortunatly now turning into patent "business"(trolls)). Where what i see/say and said before this reply of you, is laws to prevent, stop and punish those that try or do such things.

[MrApadirect]

"The world according to Monsanto" Documentary in my channel watch it ^^

[kip151]

Build trees or plant them?

[Badwolf182]

BTW for those not familair with the criminla seed nazis plz go to google. Click videos top left cornoer and type in Food Inc or just Monsanto. There are several 1 - 2 hr long documentaries on exactly what Monsanto have been doing and how.

[Badwolf182]

@NicosNicosNicosNicos What I meant is ppl from Sth America have diverse cultures and language and to be called sth america is insulting. I know the nth american natives used to call it Turtle land but I didnt know what Sth Americans called it so thanx. AND that is what it should be called in my opinion bczo we dont call say Nepal by some other namelike sth of china do we. That was my point but i guess ppl took it the wrong way and became defensive

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

@blackiron60 Lugo doesn't lack "balls" but the political situation in both countries are very different. He doesn't have the political power. In Venezuela until this year, congress was in government hands because the opposition had boycotted previous elections to draw attention to itself and play the victim. In Paraguay, the opposition controls congress.

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

@Badwolf182 Hi, the confusion comes from the fact that people in the US have taken to calling their country (the United States of America) just "America" -which is in fact the name of the continent and not just their country. -If there is something degrading it may well be precisely this.

(In my opinion it is worse when people from other parts of America, such as Brazil, say it.)

The indigenous name inter-American indigenous movements use for the continent is "Abya Yala"(from the Kuna language).