USA: "DO NOT SATANIZE LINO OVIEDO..."
We have dispatched ourselves some days ago with the juicy
declarations of Arturo Valenzuela, Main Consultant for Latin
America at Mr. Clinton’s Administration. In an interview
carried out by the daily Clarín (January 23rd , 2000)
he declared that Oviedo is a very delicate problem for Paraguay,
but he noticed that it was necessary to have caution with
people like Oviedo.
Coinciding with what we are sustaining in this page, Valenzuela
contributed their point of view on the hypersensibility
and the prejudice that we usually take when we act with
emotion and not with reflection (one of the most excellent
characteristics in us, the Latins).
Valenzuela said: The experience demonstrates us that those
that come from an authoritarian tradition, as they are Militaries
or that they have had some type of antidemocratic attitude,
if they arrive to the power by a democratic way and they
accept the game rules, that is something that consolidates
the democracy to the long one. He also noticed: in international
politics it is necessary to avoid the "satanization
" of leaders as Oviedo.
In the extensive report, the delegate of the President of
the United States recognized that the judicial matters in
which Lino Oviedo is involved, he must fix them in front
of the Paraguayan justice and he added: It doesn't belongs
to me to pronounce myself on this type of matters. What
I’m worried about is that in some countries it is
still necessary a lot to do to consolidate the democracy.
Finally we keep for us the words of Arturo Valenzuela so
that we can make a balance of opportunities in those that,
in front of politically similar situations that have been
lived in our continent, we have reacted but not meditated.
The social and political situations for those that live,
have lived and will live our dear Latin America they make
a sense, a reason, an explanation. If we make an effort
to understand and not to prejudice, we will surely find
together the sense of the things that they happen us...
Everything is for a better world and for an united Latin
America.
