ASUNCION — Paraguayan lawmakers have impeached president Fernando Lugo over his handling of a deadly land dispute, prompting an angry din across Latin America and refusals to recognize his successor.
In a 39-to-4 vote Friday, senators found Lugo, a 61-year-old former Catholic priest with a string of outstanding paternity cases, guilty of performing his duties badly during a land dispute last week that left 17 people dead (read more).
Fernando Lugo ya no es más presidente de Paraguay
Por el Portafolio
22 de Junio de 2012
El expresidente paraguayo afirmó que respeta la decisión del Congreso.
El hasta ahora vicepresidente Federico Franco asumió ayer la presidencia de Paraguay tras la destitución por parte del Congreso del mandatario Fernando Lugo.
Franco tomó el juramento en medio de aplausos y en una sala bicameral repleta, poco más de una hora y media después que el Senado paraguayo considerara que Lugo era culpable de “mal desempeño de sus funciones” en una votación 39 a 4 con dos ausencias (lea más).
European protests to stop bulldozers on uncontacted tribe's land by Survival International 26 January 2010
Protestors gathered in London,
Madrid and Paris today to oppose the destruction of land
belonging to one of the world's last uncontacted tribes.
The protestors stood outside the Paraguayan embassies in Madrid
and London
holding placards reading, 'Save the Ayoreo.' The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode are
losing their forest to a Brazilian company bulldozing it to graze cattle for
beef.
In Paris, a
letter was handed in to UNESCO's head office expressing their concern for the
Totobiegosode. The forest being destroyed by the cattle-ranchers is part of a
UNESCO 'biosphere reserve', but despite pleas from the Totobiegosode to stop
the destruction UNESCO has yet to respond. (Read more)
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