Paraguay recalls the ambassador to Brazil and suspends the dam interviews for the spy revelations
Paraguay announced Tuesday that she was remembering her ambassador Brazil A day after the Brazilian authorities recognized that the Intelligence Agency of their country pushed Paraguayan officials in 2022. The government of Paraguay also said that it would suspend negotiations with Brazil on the massive hydroelectric dam that operates jointly with its most powerful neighbor.
Paraguay’s decision came after the Foreign Ministry of Brazil revealed that the administration of Jair BolsonaroThe right predecessor of the current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had conducted espionage against the small South American nation.
Lula’s government insisted that he had stopped surveillance against Paraguay immediately after being aware, without elaborating the nature of the operation or that targeted.
The Brazilian news site UOL reported that the country’s intelligence agents had infiltrated the Paraguayan computer systems to obtain Intel on sensitive tariff negotiations relating to the Itiipu dam on the shared border.
On Monday Paraguay said he would stop the talks that had been underway for months with Brazil for the costs of the generation of hydroelectric energy from the Itipu dam until Brazil can clarify “the intelligence action ordered against our country”.
Paraguay’s Foreign Ministry He said he had started an investigation into what happened exactly between June 2022 and March 2023, when according to the espionage operation he took place under the then President Bolsonaro. The Paraguasian authorities said they were not aware of this infiltration.
“It is a violation of international law, interference in the internal affairs of one country in another,” Foreign Minister Paraguayan Rubén Lezcano told journalists. “We are in constant attack and the ministry is taking all the necessary measures to defend our confidential information”.
Lezcano said that the ministry was remembering Paraguay’s ambassador to Brazil and also summoned the Brazilian ambassador to Paraguay to offer a formal explanation on the computer shipping campaign.
The move does not represent a permanent rupture in diplomatic relations, since the Brazil embassy in Paraguay will remain open.
But discord reflects an awakening of the historical tensions among the neighbors dating back to the invasion of the country’s Brazil in 1860, which began a brutal war in which Paraguay lost a quarter of its territory and most of its male population.
The Itipu dam, with a ability to generate about 14,000 electricity megawatts, has long been a painful person in Paraguay. Many Paraguards consider the original treatise – in sending the Paraguay to give in to Brazil any share of energy does not use nationally instead of selling to other countries – as an affront to the sovereignty of the nation.
