Steven Levitsky Quote
This is precisely what happened, as we have already noted, in Paraguay in 2012 with the two-day quickie impeachment of Fernando Lugo, and in Ecuador in 1997 with the removal of Abdalá Bucaram on bogus grounds of mental incapacity. In these cases, impeachment was weaponized—the leaders of congress used it to remove a president they didn’t like.
Steven Levitsky
This is precisely what happened, as we have already noted, in Paraguay in 2012 with the two-day quickie impeachment of Fernando Lugo, and in Ecuador in 1997 with the removal of Abdalá Bucaram on bogus grounds of mental incapacity. In these cases, impeachment was weaponized—the leaders of congress used it to remove a president they didn’t like.