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Fernando Lugo
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47.° President of Paraguay
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Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, born on May 30, 1951, in San Pedro del Paraná, is a Paraguayan politician, sociologist, and former Catholic bishop. He served as the President of Paraguay and held the position of President pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations. A member of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, Lugo is a citizen of Paraguay and speaks Spanish.
Lugo was educated at the Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción" and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He belonged to the Divine Word Missionaries religious order and was consecrated by Jose Sebastian Laboa and Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos. His awards include the National Order of Merit and the Order of Brilliant Jade.
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,845x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,947x
- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
· 2020 · cited 14,068x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,992x
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Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez ( Spanish pronunciation: [feɾˈnando aɾˈmindo ˈluɣo ˈmendes]; born 30 May 1951) is a Paraguayan politician and laicized Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously, he was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop, serving as Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro from 1994 to 2005. He was elected as president in 2008, an election that ended 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party.
In 2012, he was removed from office through an impeachment process that neighboring countries deemed a coup d'état. He was elected to the Senate of Paraguay in the 2013 and 2018 general elections but failed to win reelection in the 2023 Paraguayan general election.
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