Paraguay Power Struggle: Disagreements as to Whether the President’s Ouster Amounts to a Coup

Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Democracy in Paraguay: at work or under threat?

The Christian Science Monitor

A president’s popularity plummets. His remaining allies turn against him, and he is swiftly removed from office. Democracy playing out? Or democracy under threat? That is the question Latin America is weighing this week, after the Paraguayan senate voted the nation’s president, Fernando Lugo.