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 )
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