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Weekly Report - 23 April 2009 (WR-09-16)

PARAGUAY: New paternity suit upstages Lugo's reshuffle

A 27-year old woman announced this week that President Fernando Lugo fathered her second child. Benigna Leguizamón said she had been motivated to speak out after Viviana Carrillo, 26, presented a paternity suit against Lugo a week earlier [WR-09-15]. Lugo had planned to celebrate the first anniversary of his electoral triumph on 20 April by reshuffling his cabinet to give new impetus to his political project. In the event his announcement of four changes was totally overshadowed by Leguizamón's claim; the media preferring to provide live coverage from her humble dwelling in the border city of Ciudad del Este rather than the presidential palace.

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