The Priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the Making of a Nation

Paraguay had the oldest one-party regime on earth. Under the sixty-year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner's Colorado party, wealth and power became concentrated in the hands of a few. But then elections in 2008 broke the party's hold on the country and promised a new, more egalitarian future, particularly for the country's indigenous people.

In The Priest of Paraguay, Hugh O'Shaughnessy tells the story of how Fernando Lugo, a bishop from a deprived diocese, swept to victory, and what this means for his country, Latin America and the wider world. This is the history of a fascinating but largely unknown country by one of the most respected commentators on Latin America.