Paraguay’s President Impeached

Paraguay’s president was voted out of power by the country’s Senate Friday in a move that the ousted leader said left Paraguay “deeply wounded.” Fernando Lugo, a former priest who received support from the country’s poor, was tried on five charges of malfeasance by the Senate. Thousands of supporters took to the streets to support Lugo after legislators overwhelmingly voted to remove him from power, and Vice President Federico Franco was sworn in to the country’s highest office. “A truly shameful act has been committed,” said Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro, who called the vote a “new type of coup.”