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  • Paraguay's ousted leader Fernando Lugo denounces 'coup'

    06/24/2012 9:58:00 AM PDT · by JerseyanExile · 4 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | June 24, 2012 | The Telegraph
    Paraguay's ousted President Fernando Lugo has broken cover to accuse the country's Congress of carrying out a "parliamentary coup d'etat" to force him from power. In his first public appearance since his impeachment on Friday over a deadly land dispute earlier this month, Mr Lugo, 61, attacked Congress for its decision but said he would accept it in the name of peace. "Lugo has not been dismissed; democracy has been dismissed. They have not respected the popular will," he said at a street protest attended by about 500 people in the capital Asuncion. He called his impeachment "unjust" and called...