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Agence France-Presse
November 6, 2009
Paraguayan president fires military chiefs amid coup rumors
-Analysts said Lugo appeared to fear an ouster similar to the one that befell Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was forcibly deported...in June by his country's military.
ASUNCION, Paraguay: Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has replaced his military chiefs after making accusations of a coup plot to overthrow his leftist government, officials said Thursday.
Lugo, a former Catholic bishop who assumed office in August 2008, fired his army, navy and air force commanders on Wednesday, a day after claiming there were "pockets of coup-plotters" in the armed forces.
He named other senior career officers to take their places.
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Lugo made no public comment on the sackings, which were announced in a statement by the armed forces.
The military chiefs fired on Wednesday were Army General Oscar Velazquez, Navy Rear Admiral Claudelino Recalde and Air Force General Hugo Aranda.
They were replaced by, respectively, General Bartolome Pineda, Rear Admiral Egberto Orue, and General Dario Davalos.
Paraguay's congress, which is dominated by Lugo's opponents, warned the president was overstepping his authority, and threatened to go ahead with an impeachment process started before the sackings.
Analysts said Lugo appeared to fear an ouster similar to the one that befell Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was forcibly deported in his pajamas in June by his country's military.
"The idea of a plot has grown, and the response to those who wanted to push him into an impasse was this. Lugo really does not want to follow in the footsteps of Zelaya," said one analyst, Horacio Galeano, who was education minister in Lugo's government until four months ago.
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Politically, Lugo has been accused of styling himself on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in his determination to improve the lot of Paraguay's poor.
Agence France-Presse
November 6, 2009
Paraguayan president fires military chiefs amid coup rumors
-Analysts said Lugo appeared to fear an ouster similar to the one that befell Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was forcibly deported...in June by his country's military.
ASUNCION, Paraguay: Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has replaced his military chiefs after making accusations of a coup plot to overthrow his leftist government, officials said Thursday.
Lugo, a former Catholic bishop who assumed office in August 2008, fired his army, navy and air force commanders on Wednesday, a day after claiming there were "pockets of coup-plotters" in the armed forces.
He named other senior career officers to take their places.
....
Lugo made no public comment on the sackings, which were announced in a statement by the armed forces.
The military chiefs fired on Wednesday were Army General Oscar Velazquez, Navy Rear Admiral Claudelino Recalde and Air Force General Hugo Aranda.
They were replaced by, respectively, General Bartolome Pineda, Rear Admiral Egberto Orue, and General Dario Davalos.
Paraguay's congress, which is dominated by Lugo's opponents, warned the president was overstepping his authority, and threatened to go ahead with an impeachment process started before the sackings.
Analysts said Lugo appeared to fear an ouster similar to the one that befell Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was forcibly deported in his pajamas in June by his country's military.
"The idea of a plot has grown, and the response to those who wanted to push him into an impasse was this. Lugo really does not want to follow in the footsteps of Zelaya," said one analyst, Horacio Galeano, who was education minister in Lugo's government until four months ago.
....
Politically, Lugo has been accused of styling himself on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in his determination to improve the lot of Paraguay's poor.
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