Lugo: embracing a new heaven
The Colorado Party's 61-year grip on power may be at an end
IF THE poll numbers hold, the world's longest-ruling political party will be dismissed by Paraguay's voters on April 20th. The Colorado Party, which came to power two years before China's Communist Party, has governed for so long that Paraguay sometimes feels like a run-down country club that exists purely for the benefit of party members. Yet despite fielding a good candidate, the Colorados could well lose to a complete political novice.
Their main opponent is Fernando Lugo, a Catholic bishop who gave up his job preaching liberation theology to the poor in order to stand for ...