Paraguay vulnerable to Chavez-like leader

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | October 1, 2007| | Copyright

YAGUARON, Paraguay -- A feisty populist former priest could win next April's Paraguayan elections and become Hugo Chavez's new ally in this country bordering Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia. The rise of Fernando Lugo, who was active in liberation theology movement within the Catholic Church, illustrates the inadequacies of Latin America's democratic systems, which periodically give rise to left-wing movements fueled by social resentment.

I came to Yaguaron, a sleepy town to the south of Asuncion that seems frozen in the 18th century, to shoot a documentary on authoritarianism in Latin America. ...

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