Profile: Paraguay President Fernando Lugo
August 15, 2008 | 10:00
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Tyler Bridges profiles Paraguay's recently elected President Fernando Lugo, for the McClatchy News Service.
His election was far-fetched, writes Bridges.
No priest in living memory had been elected president of a Latin American country, much less one who hewed to the Liberation Theology practice of agitating on behalf of the oppressed.
Lugo's election is historic for another reason: He defeated the Colorado Party, which had governed Paraguay since 1947. No political party holding power had governed longer anywhere in the world.
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