Senate to hold special session to reject Paraguay's 'institutional coup'

The head of the Kirchnerite caucus in the Senate Miguel Angel Pichetto confirmed that the Senate will hold a special session to reject the ‘institutional coup” which took place on Paraguay on Friday.

The session will begin at 7 pm on Monday, and Pichetto said that the Kirchnerite stance is the same one as President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s and the Foreign Ministry’s of not “recognizing the government that came out after the shameful coup which ousted president Fernando Lugo.”

Pichetto assured that the Paraguayan congress did not guarantee Lugo’s right to defence and that what happened was clearly an institutional coup, which recalls the worst antidemocratic experiences in Latin America.”