While the US continues to ruminate about whether what happened in Paraguay is appropriately categorized as a coup, Mercosur is meeting in Mendoza, Argentina. And deposed President Lugo won't be there:
“I don’t want the other presidents to feel pressured,” Lugo said on television.
South American leaders plan to discuss a regional response to Lugo’s dismissal at the meeting, and Mercosur has barred Paraguay’s new government from attending
And the OAS is in no enormous rush to sort things out:
In Washington, the Organization of American States Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza said Tuesday that he or his representatives will visit Paraguay and neighboring countries this weekend on a fact-finding mission.
No problem. No need for the US, the beacon of democracy in the hemisphere, to take a position. My
essay complaining about the US's weak response" to events in Paraguay must have missed the mark. It must have misunderstood what was really going on. Yes, sir, because that was no coup. What happened in Paraguay was legal.
And if a picture is worth a zillion words, here's a photo of today's presidential meeting in Asuncion:
See? That was no coup in Paraguay. It was just a Constitutional exercise, and it was approved by their Supreme Court, and their laws allow it, and there's nothing more to see here. Just ignore the uniforms. They're just going duck hunting after the meeting. Now pick up your stuff and move on.