Paraguay's Senate Votes to Remove President... ‎

[scotttswan]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...ocId=CNG.be5c41bb3664394501f576fa5fe63a65.721

Just on the news that he's gone. Seems very sudden.

Lugo appealed the impeachment proceedings before the Supreme Court, saying they were unconstitutional and that under the law he had the right to delay the process for 18 days to give him time to prepare his defense.

I'm not up on Paraguayan politics but at an initial glance it seems to be a bit of a coup.

reuters are reporting that he's "gone"

edit: just noticed ElQueso has posted a longer post with more info. Mods please delete/merge this thread

 

[ElQueso]

You beat me to it by a few minutes. Heh. Just posted another thread.

It was a coup.