A dozen years of pdp misrule has not destroyed their belief in democracy ; many exude hope . " We have anger but we have even more hope , " says a cook sharpening knives .
During saturnalia , a roman winter celebration , participants would dance , drink and play jokes on each other ; slaves pretended to rule their masters , and a mock king , the lord of misrule , reigned for a day .
When fernando lugo was sworn in as paraguay 's president in august last year , the former bishop and liberation theologian , a political novice , represented a refreshing change in a country that had endured 60 years , largely of misrule , under the colorado party .
Thestatistical magnifying glass also casts doubt on some favourite alibisfor monetary misrule . Bad data , for example , do not get central bankersoff the hook : revisions to statistics on trend growth and unemploymentwere not big enough to excuse the scale of inflation . Instead , monetarypolicy was simply too loose .