Os neogolpes e as interrupções de mandatos presidenciais na América Latina: os casos de Honduras, Paraguai e Brasil

Abstract

The neo coups and the interruptions of presidential terms in Latin America: the cases of Honduras, Paraguay and Brazil This paper aims to characterize the depositions of the presidents of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, Paraguay Fernando Lugo, and Honduras Manuel Zelaya as neo coups, showing at the same time that this practice has become a new regional modus operandi, replacing the coups that were successfully for the last time in the 1960s and 1970s, with the goal of overthrowing progressive governments and restoring conservative political forces through non-electoral leadership to the Executive Powers of these countries. Not less important is the correlation between the neo coups in Latin America and the regional and international geopolitics, marked by an intense American reaction to the advance at the global level alternative poles of power, a strong policy of realignment of its direct area of influence, the American continent, and the reinvigoration of conservative Latin American political forces, traditionally closer to the United States than progressive ones