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Sicariato in Paraguay: the year 2022 in balance

By Jorge Rolón Luna* Last June 24, D. G. was ar­riv­ing at his home in San Rafael del Paraná when he was hit by close range bul­lets. On the way to the near­est hos­pi­tal, he stopped breath­ing. Up to this point it could be just an­other vi­o­lent episode, just an­other... More »

The judicialization of politics and the fall of Mario Ferreiro

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia. Through­out the 20th cen­tury, the heads of Latin Amer­i­can ex­ec­u­tive pow­ers fell mainly be­cause of mil­i­tary in­ter­ven­tions. Af­ter the third wave of de­moc­ra­ti­za­tion, which be­gan four decades ago, the early fall of pres­i­dents con­tin­ued to occ... More »


Who opens the doors to mega-loads of cocaine?

By Ro­drigo Ibar­rola It is no se­cret that for­mer Min­is­ter of the In­te­rior and the Na­tional Anti-Drug Sec­re­tariat (SENAD), Ar­naldo Giuzzio, and for­mer Pres­i­dent Ho­ra­cio Cartes are en­e­mies. The first one dis­closed the al­leged mech­a­nism used for the laun­der­ing of ... More »

Why Paraguay is Corrupt in International Markets (And What We Can Do About It)

By An­dres Car­ri­zosa *             Re­cently, the U.S. am­bas­sador to Paraguay, Marc Os­t­field, shocked the Paraguayan po­lit­i­cal es­tab­lish­ment by pub­licly des­ig­nat­ing three Paraguayan cit­i­zens as “sig­nif­i­cantly cor­rupt.” Among those ac­cused were Ho­ra­cio Cartes—Par... More »

Murders of journalists in Paraguay: 41 years of deadly censorship

By Jorge Rolón Luna* In a pre­vi­ous ar­ti­cle it was stated that homi­cide is the worst and most ex­treme form of cen­sor­ship. It rep­re­sents the clash be­tween the most rad­i­cal cen­sor­ship and the right to in­for­ma­tion, the ex­er­cise of which is the pre­con­di­tion for dem... More »


Legalization, decriminalization? Paraguay and its “war” on drugs

By Jorge Rolón Luna In 1875, the May­or’s Of­fice of San Fran­cisco (USA) is­sued a ban on opium dens, mark­ing, per­haps, the ini­ti­a­tion of an of­fen­sive model against con­scious­ness-al­ter­ing sub­stances that is still in force to­day. 147 years later, the same coun­try ... More »

Who’s smoking so much in our country?

By Ro­drigo Ibar­rola A lit­tle over a year ago, the Cen­ter for Analy­sis and Dis­sem­i­na­tion of the Paraguayan Econ­omy (CADEP), the best think tank in the coun­try, 17th in the re­gion and 68th in the world (in in­ter­na­tional eco­nomic pol­icy), high­lighted the ex­cess p... More »