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Election of the day: Paraguay

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On April 30, 2023
Paraguay will elect a president today. It's a bit of those good news/bad news kind of situation. The good news is that the conservative, historically dominant Colorado party, an effective political machine that has held power in Paraguay for 72 of the last 77 years,...

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On April 21, 2013
As we should all have expected, the Paraguayan quasi-coup that forced Fernando Lugo out of office seems to have worked out pretty well for the oligarchs, likely ushering them back into power and making the poor cynical that any political movement could improve their lot.

The Paraguayan Argo

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On February 25, 2013

Very interesting: Which is where Paraguay’s own “Argo” enters into the story. After Jimmy Carter denied Somoza asylum, he headed to Paraguay, where General Alfredo Stroessner’s right-wing military regime governed..

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On January 15, 2013

Colin with a good run-down of recent news about the quasi-coup that forced Fernando Lugo from power in Paraguay last year. It sounds like a combination of gratuitous police violence.

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On June 23, 2012
Yesterday, the Paraguayan Senate removed democratically-elected leftist president Fernando Lugo from power in what probably isn't technically a coup since the Senate followed the Constitution. But it was little more than a politically motivated move to eliminate a president that spoke for the nation's vast...
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