Year: 2008

Alberto Castiglioni, former Vice-President of Paraguay, and member of the Colorado party, made statements this afternoon on national television, as he exercised his civic duty.  He declared, once again that with tonight’s results, "we will see who is the true Colorado party."
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Asunción, Paraguay – Fireworks can still be heard in the distance where thousands of people are in the streets of downtown Asuncion sharing, embracing, reveling, hugging, smothering each other in kisses, and dancing until the early morning. Fernando Lugo, the opposition candidate and progressive former bishop, has won with just over ten points above his closest challenger, Colorado candidate Blanca Ovelar. […]

6:30 PM A full moon hangs in the clear sky.  Under the setting sun, the last electoral centers are counting the ballots.  In the poor barrio, Bañado, on the outskirts of Asuncion, in the San […]

Lilian Soto is involved with Saca, an independent count of the vote, organized by various NGOs independently. She’s a former president of the Junta municipal of Asuncion. Click here to listen to the interview: http://nyc.indymedia.org/media/2008/04//96418.mp3

Update: We just got off the phone with Michael Fox, the Upside Down World correspondent covering the elections in Paraguay. From the midst of celebrations in the streets, Fox reports that with 90% of the results in, Fernando Lugo has won the election.

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“What we are sure about, is that there is going to be fraud, in the multitude of diverse ways that the history of this country has taught,” said Juan Jose Dominguez, Uruguayan member of the MERCOSUR Parliament for the Frente Amplio coalition, and international election observer in Paraguay for this Sunday’s elections.  […]

Paraguayans are busy exercising their civic duty today as millions of citizens across this South American country are voting in today’s elections, one of the most important in the history of this tiny country. […]