Lame ducks
THE Colorado party would always win, even if it put up Donald Duck as a candidate, was the one-time boast of Luis Maria Argaña, vice-president of Paraguay until his assassination last year. Yet it seems that the Colorados may have lost the election for a new vice-president held on August 13th—and their candidate was Argaña's son, Felix.
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