Oil find is a game-changer for Paraguay

[joshcryer]

21. Impeachment is not a legal process, though, it's political.

It doesn't fall under the confines of legality. Let's look at President Clinton. Impeached over some bad behavior. Now he could stage a legal defense if he wanted to, but if the Congress voted him out of office, he would have had simply no choice in the matter. It would've been cut and dry. The best defense in the world wouldn't have mattered. He could've been completely innocent. Indeed, in Clinton's case it was political.

Players in the game of Lugo's ouster have ulterior motives. Brazil, for example, has the Itaipu Dam, which Lugo allowed them a favorable contract (which went to the detriment of those in Paraguay, since it provides most of Paraguay's electricity).

Venezuela wanted into Mercosur. Hell, the VP of Venezuela even went to Lugo and tried to convince his top generals to form a coup. This, btw, is a justification, after the fact, of why you must oust certain connected powers quickly. In that "18 days to prepare their arguments" Lugo could've easily been fomenting a coup, the whole logistics of the thing. I would not put it past him at all.