O Impeachment de Fernando Lugo: juízo político e as suas repercussões no MERCOSUL

Abstract

The controversial impeachment of former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo in 2012 sparked intense debate about democratic stability in the countries of the Americas, especially between the MERCOSUR states. Impeachment was, in fact, a "veiled" blow from the old political-economic elites. The echoes of the deposition process of the Paraguayan Head of State continue to reverberate in what many authors called the retreat of the "Rosa Onda". Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze the impeachment of Fernando Lugo, in order to identify its causes and the variables that influenced the process. It also seeks to ascertain the repercussions in the regional integration process, with the "application" of the "democratic clause". It is hypothesized that impeachment pronounced the "new tactic" of the bourgeois class to maintain power and / or regain power in the region. For this purpose, the facts are examined under the neo-gramcian view.