Fernando Lugo

They have also struggled to regain much of the momentum they lost following the presidency of Fernando Lugo. In 2012, the left-wing Lugo, a former Catholic bishop, was impeached and then removed from office after a confrontation between farmers and law enforcement left 17 dead. Lugo's impeachment ...

According to several opposition groups, including the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, led by Alegre, and the Guasu Front led by former President Fernando Lugo, there were multiple irregularities in the tally sheets during the election. After Alegre confirmed they had “clear evidence of fraud,” Lugo warned of ...

A simple trip to the market last month turned into a nightmare for Fernando Lugo-Zarate and his wife, Maria Socorro-Lugo. Lugo-Zarate, 48, and Socorro-Lugo, 44, who have lived in the U.S. for 25 years, were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents March 14 in front of their two children near their ...

The Colorado Party's electoral predominance is not unusual; it was the ruling party between 1946 and 2008 until former President Fernando Lugo's victory in 2008 thanks to a broad coalition named the Patriotic Alliance for Change, led by Lugo's Guasu Front. As archbishop of San Pedro, one of Paraguay's ...

... President Horacio Cartes, won the highest percentage vote intention with 26.8 percent. Next are the polls of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA) led by Blas Lanzoni (15.9 percent) and the Guasu Front led by Senator and former President (2008-2012) Fernando Lugo (15.5 percent). sgl/iff/tgj/jf/gdc ...

The massacre prompted the impeachment of a left-leaning President, Fernando Lugo, elected on a platform of land reform. In a trial riddled with inconsistencies – four videos of the massacre vanished before proceedings began and the main defence witness was assassinated – 11 farmers were given jail ...

Last year, the Frente Guasu defended the candidacy for senator of Fernando Lugo, Paraguay's first progressive president, who was ousted before the end of his mandate in 2012, arguing that he could not be considered as a senator in charge since the political trial, and therefore he could claim a seat at the ...

The opposition alliance includes the party of former center-left President Fernando Lugo, an ex-Roman Catholic bishop whose election in 2008 broke the Colorado Party's historic grip on power. Lugo, a candidate for a Senate seat in Sunday's balloting, was removed from the presidency in 2012 in a ...