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To understand the book, one must first understand its subject. Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez was born on May 30, 1951, in San Pedro del Paraná, Paraguay. Initially, Lugo felt a calling to the military, but he ultimately joined the Divine Word Missionaries (Verbistas), a Catholic order known for its missionary work and, later, its alignment with Liberation Theology. He was ordained a priest in 1977 and consecrated as the Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro in 1994. Initially, Lugo felt a calling to the military,
Lugo won as the candidate of the Frente Guasú (Great Front), a motley coalition of socialists, communists, peasant leaders, and dissident Colorados. The PDF provides a blow-by-blow analysis of how this “nation-making” coalition fell apart due to infighting—offering lessons for any coalition government.