Weekly Report - 13 March 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

Fernando Lugo, the frontrunner in Paraguay's presidential elections on 20 April, visited Argentina this week. Lugo is persona non grata in Brazil because of his fierce criticism of the terms of the hydroelectric project, Itaipú, which he is threatening to take to the International Court of Justice at The Hague unless it is renegotiated. Argentina's President Cristina Fernández was slightly more welcoming. Lugo, who is also seeking to revise the terms of the Yacyretá project with Argentina, got half-an-hour of her time.