Video: Fernando Lugo: Paraguay's democracy 'profoundly wounded' The former president of Paraguay has accepted Congress' decision to remove him from office after a lightning-quick impeachment trial. But in a televised speech he took aim at those behind the move to impeach him and said that Paraguay's democracy had been 'profoundly wounded'. Today it is not Fernando Lugo who is deposed, it is Paraguayan history. Its democracy has been profoundly wounded. All its principles of defence have been transgressed in a cowardly, treacherous way and I hope that its executors recognise the gravity of their deeds," he said. Mr Lugo was found guilty of mishandling armed clashes over a land eviction where 17 police and peasant farmers were killed last week. The Senate voted 39-4 to remove him the day after lawmakers in the lower house agreed in a sudden, near-unanimous vote to impeach him. Mr Lugo's rivals firmly control both congressional houses. He's been replaced by liberal Vice President Federico Franco, a fierce critic of the socialist Lugo. Mr Lugo's presidency has been controversial. The former bishop asked the country for 'forgiveness' in 2009, after he admitted fathering a two-year-old boy with a former parishioner while a member of the church.