By Marcos Pérez Talia. Paraguay is on the way to its eighth presidential election since the fall of General Stroessner’s dictatorship. Of the seven previous elections, the Colorado Party triumphed in six. If we observe the course of both coloradismo and the op... More »
By Juan A. Martens Molas. The murder of Ederson Salinas, AKA Ryguasu, in the parking lot of a supermarket in Asuncion on Saturday, February 25, 2023, shocked locals as well as the National Police and is generating a reaction from criminal market actors. It put... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* The recent murder in Asunción of Ederson Salinas Benítez, a drug trafficker from the Amambay area, although without any official investigation, showed once again that hired assassination is no longer an “Amambay” or “border” issue, as was ... More »
By Marcos Pérez Talia. The polls have started to be published and with them the controversies. Just as Tereré Cómplice published several articles about them during the last electoral cycle, we will put the magnifying glass on them again. More »
By Juan A. Martens Molas* Sicariato is justice administration by the organized crime. It is an agile mechanism for conflict resolution that originated in the criminal market. Therefore, to understand the implications of a case we must broaden our view of the c... More »
By Juan Francisco Camino* The elections of local government authorities (mayors, councilors, council members, among others), of councilors of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control, and the referendum proposed by the Ecuadorian government, hel... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* The model of policing that has emerged in Paraguay since the end of Stronismo, and the constitutional and legal reforms that followed, can be characterized as a “briefcase model“. I call this a way of organizing the actions of the police i... More »
By Héctor Fariña* Is it important to support compulsory voting? First, the answer is simple and forceful: yes, it is. For several reasons. Compulsory voting is mentioned in Article 118 of our Constitution, which establishes suffrage as a right, duty, and publi... More »
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 »
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 »
By José Duarte Penayo. The 2023 presidential race comes after a period of government marked by critical and extraordinary events, capable of substantially altering the stability of the political game. The pandemic was the main event, capable of leading to the ... More »
Rodrigo Ibarrola According to its third meaning, “tradition” is -according to the RAE- the doctrine, custom preserved in a people by transmission from parents to children or, if we refer to religions -fourth meaning-, each of the teachings or doctrines transmi... More »