{"id":12962,"date":"2019-07-30T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=12962"},"modified":"2019-07-30T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:34:42","slug":"paraguayans-against-itaipu-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/paraguayans-against-itaipu-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguayans Against Itaipu Agreement!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Paraguayan people took the streets on July 27, 2019 against a new agreement with Brazil which increases the price of energy in 40%.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By CSP-Conlutas Media Workgroup<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was imposed by Brazilian authorities last May but kept secret by Paraguayan president Mario Abdo Benitez.<\/p>\n<p>Under threat of impeachment, President Mario Abdo Benitez cancelled the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement is related to the energy generated by Itaipu Dam, the second largest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Built on the border between Paraguay and Brazil, it benefits primarily the Brazilian economy.<\/p>\n<p>Each country has the right for 50% of the energy output for which they pay US$ 43 \/ MWh.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil takes 93% of all output: 50% on their right and 43% from Paraguay who takes only the remaining 7%.<\/p>\n<p>The 1973 agreement between the two countries establishes that none can sell the energy to other countries for 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil pays around only US$ 43 \/ MWh for the energy which is resold inside Brazil on US$ 125 \/ MWh for industries and US$ 206 \/ MWh for domestic consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The Paraguayan government gets only US$ 360 million per year as indemnity. On market prices it should be around US$ 2,900 million.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this neocolonial agreement, Brazil is also responsible for the destruction of the country 150 years ago in a war waged against Paraguay by the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>CSP-Conlutas stands in solidarity to the Paraguayan working class in their struggle against energy price hikes and for full sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>CSP-Conlutas also demands the Brazilian government the full disclosure of all archives related to the war against Paraguay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paraguayan people took the streets on July 27, 2019 against a new agreement with Brazil which increases the price of energy in 40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12963,"menu_order":567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"litci_post_political_author":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[4268,27],"class_list":["post-12962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paraguay","tag-itaipu","tag-paraguay-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Paraguay-itaipu.jpg?fit=683%2C495&ssl=1","fimg_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Paraguay-itaipu.jpg?fit=683%2C495&ssl=1","categories_names":["Paraguay"],"author_info":{"name":"litci","pic":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c5ccde5393ccb83747702c5ca92f55d8fdaf99be9432d0142571c6d437fbaadb?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"political_author":null,"tagline":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}