Paraguay's Congress voted on Friday to remove leftist President Fernando Lugo from office in a lightning-quick impeachment trial that he said was tantamount to a coup.<br/> <br />Lugo, a former Roman Catholic bishop who quit the Church to run for the presidency, is accused of mishandling armed clashes over a land eviction in which 17 police and<br/> <br />peasant farmers were killed last week.<br/> <br />Security forces were lined up outside the congressional building to keep several thousand protesters at bay.<br/> <br />Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
