ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguay’s Senate is set to try President Fernando Lugo after he was impeached in a high-stakes confrontation between the leftist former priest and his former moderate allies.
Adolfo Ferreiro, one of the president’s lawyers, says that Lugo won’t appear at the trial in the Senate and is to be defended by his lawyers.
The Senate is trying Lugo for allegedly having a role in a deadly confrontation involving landless farmers that left 17 dead.
Paraguay’s lower house of Congress voted to impeach Lugo on Thursday, and the president said he would face the trial. He called it an attempt to carry out an “express coup.”
A delegation of foreign ministers from the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, arrived in Paraguay ahead of the trial to discuss the crisis.
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