Paraguay president hit with $104 traffic ticket

Fernando Lugo occupies Paraguay's highest office, but he's not above the rules of the road.

Police issued the bishop-turned-president a $104 traffic ticket Friday for illegal passing and failing to keep his driver's license up to date, highway transit chief Eduardo Petta said.

Petta told Nanduti radio he was accompanying officers in the field when they stopped a black Ford Explorer without license plates after it passed another vehicle illegally on a highway south of the capital.

"When I got up to the vehicle, I saw that President Lugo himself was behind the wheel," Petta said. "I explained why I had pulled him over and asked for …