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Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Lugo impeachment creates an institutional crisis in Mercosur

The Southern Common Market (Mercosur, comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) reacted swiftly and decisively to the move by Paraguay’s congress to impeach President Fernando Lugo, condemning the impeachment process and handing down a temporary political suspension on the grounds that there had been a rupture of the democratic order in the country. However, by adopting such a strong stance on the incident and by moving in parallel to speed through Venezuela’s inclusion in the bloc, Mercosur may have inflicted more damage on itself than on Paraguay.

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