Yet another left president in Latin America, Lugo has broken 60 years of rule by the Colorado Party much of it durin dictatorship,  this is from the Morning Star(Friday 15 August 2008)

PARAGUAYAN President Fernando Lugo vowed that “the indigenous and the poor will be the privileged of my government” at his inauguration on Friday.

Mr Lugo pledged to do away with the misery and corruption that has defined the desperately poor country under the Colorado Party, which propped up the brutal 1954-1989 dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner.

Eight Latin American leaders, Taiwan’s president and Spain’s crown prince were among those who attended the swearing-in ceremony.

Before leaving his house in a working-class neighbourhood to go to the inauguration, the former bishop declared that he will donate his entire $4,000 (£2,100) monthly salary to the poor “because I don’t need it to live modestly.”

He faces obstacles in his bid to drive through socially progressive reforms. Landless peasants who have been seizing private property are threatening a much larger wave of invasions as early as this weekend.

And members of his team also suspect that the outgoing US-backed government has tried to undermine his presidency even before it began by allowing critical supplies of fuel and medicine to “disappear.”

The conservative Colorado Party still dominates most government institutions in the country, where corruption is entrenched and just 1 per cent of the population controls 77 per cent of the land.

In a statement to Cuban journalists who attended his inauguration, Mr Lugo voiced gratitude for “all Paraguayans who have been trained as professionals on the island.”