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Weekly Report - 31 March 2011 (WR-11-13)
PARAGUAY: Opposition forces Lugo's hand
Paraguay's foreign minister always looked like he was on borrowed
time and so it proved. President Fernando Lugo replaced Héctor Lacognata with
his deputy at the foreign ministry, Jorge Lara Castro, last week. Lacognata's
departure was a victory for the opposition which had been calling for his head
since it emerged that he was receiving a double salary, supplementing his
ministerial income with a hefty sum from a sinecure as an adviser to the
administration council of the bi-national hydroelectric dam Itaipú, in
contravention of the constitution. The change coincides with some fascinating
revelations in a series of cables from the US embassy in Asunción , just released
by Wikileaks.
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