Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo - a former Roman Catholic bishop who came to power after becoming the only alternative to the Colorado party that ruled this country for 61 years - has changed the chiefs of the armed forces for a third time.
The reasons behind why he fired them are still unclear, but the capital, Asuncion, had been taken over by a whirlwind of rumors about the possibility of a military coup.
Some say that Lugo found out that some high ranking officers met with the opposition that is trying to remove Lugo from office. I met Lugo in Asuncion on Friday and this is what we spoke about:
1. There were rumors here in Paraguay that there was a possibility of a coup after you replaced the military chiefs. What really happened?
![[QODLink]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2012/2/11/2012211114212966734_16.jpg "Yusuf Raza Gilani")
