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Weekly Report - 26 July 2007 (ISSN 1741-7422)
PARAGUAY: Ruling makes Oviedo's release more likely
The convoluted course of politics within the ruling Colorado party took a
new, turn on 23 July, when the supreme court lifted the preventive imprisonment
order against former general Lino Oviedo in one of his pending criminal cases.
This raises the possibility that Oviedo could be free in time to run for the
presidency next year, which in turn has increased the turmoil in the ranks of
the ruling party.
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