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The Seeds Keep Falling in Paraguay

10:17 am By la Macha · Paraguay| Politics| Women| children · 1 Comment

28 Apr 2009

The bad news for Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo just keeps coming. After news that at least two women were claiming Lugo fathered children with them, the latest gossip leaking out is that there is a third woman about ready to do the same and more may be on the way:

Newspapers and TV programmes have been dominated by stories of women coming forward to claim they had a child with the former Catholic bishop.

This “political soap opera”, complained one of these reports, is “paralysing the government”.

Three women have made allegations so far and there were reports in the Paraguay media that there may be more claims to come.

It has been a testing time for a man who was elected proclaiming the virtues of honesty and ending corruption.

One of the women has alleged she was 16 when the relationship began – making her under the legal age of consent of 17 – and a public prosecutor is now considering the implications of that claim.

Another said she turned to Mr Lugo as a bishop for help when she had been abandoned with a new born child, but he abused his position in the Church to exploit their relationship, and a year later she was carrying his child.

You know, although I’ve made several jokes about this whole mess, reading about the experiences of the women Lugo was with is actually quite disturbing to me. Women believed him, they loved him, they opened not just their hearts to him, but their bodies. Which says that this man is a skillful manipulator–nothing new for a politician–but maybe something we need to stop excusing when it comes to women?

I don’t really care if Lugo wants to have sex and impregnate every woman in Paraguay–but is it really ok for him to be using his position of power to better manipulate women into doing what he wants? Is it ok to leave women to deal with the stigma and economic difficulties of being a single mami?

When do men ever have to accept responsibility for *their* actions?

Love children popping up all over Paraguay

20 Apr 2009

VivirLatino told you a while back about the hypocrite of the week, Paraguayan president, Fernando Lugo, fathering a child while he was a bishop.

Well, turns out that Lugo has probably been “hypocriting” his…er…seed all over Paraguay:

Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo has received a second demand to recognise the paternity of a child.

President Lugo, who is a former bishop, shocked the country last week when he acknowledged a two-year-old boy as his son.

The Pope released him from his vows of chastity only last July, two years after he renounced the priesthood.

The 27-year-old woman making the latest demand says her six-year-old is the son of Mr Lugo.

In a press conference, the woman said her relationship with the then Bishop Lugo had begun in 2001, when she had gone to him for help with trying to contact the father of her first child.

Why does it seem that sexually promiscuity (even in the face of vows to God) are a prerequisite for elected service?

Hypocrite Alert: Paraguayan President Admits to Fathering Child While Bishop

13 Apr 2009

Why is that those who preach chastity and abstinance and purity are the ones who are least likely to practice it – even when their profession supposedly requires it? Take the case of none other than Fernando Lugo, President of Paraguay, who

…has publicly recognized the paternity of a child of nearly 2 years, after last Wednesday he was presented with a paternity suit. The child was conceived when Lugo was still a bishop, though he left the order in December 2006 to pursue the presidency, which he won last year.

“It is true that there was a relationship with Viviana Carrillo (mother of the child)”, said Lugo, recognizing the paternity of the child in a message to citizens in which he assured them that he “assumes all responsibilities that could come from that fact.”

26 year-old Carrillo “categorically denies” having filed the suit, even though she allegedly signed the document. Paraguay’s La Nación newspaper reports today that Carrillo’s family has left the town where they leave because of death threats.

The video above shows his confession at around 4:30. Why is this dude still wearing a priest outfit when he’s no longer a priest? What a hypocrite.

Via / 20 Minutos

Meet Your New President, Paraguay : Former Bishop Lugo

9:14 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Paraguay| Politics · Comments Off

21 Apr 2008

Way back last summer, we asked our readers if the next president of Paraguay would be lefty former Bishop Fernando Lugo. Turns out the answer is yes! Yesterday Paraguay held it’s presidential elections and it looks like the Bishop of the Poor won, changing a pattern of 60 years of presidents from the Colorado party.

“The humble citizens are the ones responsible for this change,” Lugo said at a downtown news conference as his lead grew. “Paraguayans have taken a great step toward civic maturity. . . . We have opened a new page in this nation’s political history.”

Once the election results have been verified, Lugo’s 5 year presidential term begins on August 15th.

Via / LA Times

Will Paraguay’s Next President be a Bishop?

8:32 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Paraguay| Politics · Comments Off

16 Jul 2007

Would you vote for a Catholic Bishop to be your nation’s next president? The citizenry of Paraguay may very well have that option. Enter the “Bishop of the Poor”, Fernando Lugo. He resigned as bishop last year, but the Vatican has refused to accept his resignation, saying being a bishop is a lifelong thing and they are not too happy with Lugo deciding to run for his nation’s top seat. Clergy are forbidden from seeking political office and Lugo could actually be excommunicated if he continues his campaign. Many people in Paraguay aren’t happy either, seeing Lugo as attempting to break 60 years of unbroken rule by President Nicanor Duarte’s Colorado Party.

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