By Javier Lassalle In the previous post I expressed the need for practicality in the agreement for the presidential and gubernatorial positions, justified by the fact that the NRA remains at levels close to 50% for those positions. More »
By Javier Lassalle Most of the political parties in Paraguay are in the process of electoral union through an alliance that would compete against the ANR in the elections of 2023. The invitation to the formation of the coalition includes actors of the entire i... More »
By Ma. del Pilar Abente Lahaye This article is a continuation of the first in the series “Parity in the PLRA“, which explained how the process to approve gender parity in the party bylaws was carried out. In this article we will discuss what this initiative co... More »
By Marcos Pérez Talia It even seems obvious to say that the Paraguayan opposition needs to unite to defeat the Colorado Party. Everything seems to indicate that this total unity will take place under the legal framework of the National Concertation. But to get... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna** Homicide is the worst and most extreme form of censorship. In turn, when ending a life is as easy as having the money to order it done -because the manpower is available-, the social consequences can be catastrophic. For this reason, the ... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna * Is it feasible to argue that Ecuador and Paraguay, each on its own and to different degrees, through correlated events are showing us in recent years their entry into what is called “contemporary violence.” On April 29 of this year, Ecuad... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola A few days ago we had published the data of the National Police that refuted the allegations made by the senator of the Patria Querida party, Fidel Zavala, regarding the reports of trespassing. The data revealed that, in fact, these did not... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna** Contract killings are nothing new in Paraguay. Common sense tends to restrict and limit them to certain places on the border — especially but not exclusively to the department of Amambay — so it is common to observe that when they occur i... More »
By Ma. del Pilar Abente Lahaye After years and years of struggle of liberal women for their political rights and in particular for gender parity in the PLRA, finally in the last Convention of March 13, 2022, the highest party authority approved the inclusion o... More »
By Javier Lassalle High oil prices and public policy attempts to mitigate the effects of the rise put the fuel sector under the spotlight. Although the policy measures (such as the stabilization fund or the subsidy to Petropar) sought a temporary solution, in ... More »
By María Asunción Collante Jara On March 20, 2020, our country entered a total quarantine after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, and since then, the economic and human losses have been considerable. At the same time, the structural conditions of gend... More »
By Marcos Pérez Talia Everything seems to indicate that the Paraguayan opposition will compete in 2023 using the figure of the concertación, or accord. Of all the pending issues to be resolved by the concertacionistas, one of them -perhaps the main one- is rel... More »