By Rodrigo Ibarrola On the afternoon of April 13, after the case of alleged extortion by truck union leaders of the Interior Minister of the government of Mario Abdo Benítez became known, Senator Enrique Riera (ANR-Cartista) announced that he would present a b... More »
Rodrigo Ibarrola The idea that eliminating the Selective Consumption Tax (ISC) on fuels will reduce the price of fuels derived from oil has been widely spread, especially in the session of the Chamber of Deputies on March 24. This is under the mistaken premise... More »
Rodrigo Ibarrola Regardless of whether or not the measurements reflect the reality of each Paraguayan household (an objective impossible to achieve faithfully), it is not unusual to question the inflation reported by the Central Bank of Paraguay, measured by t... More »
By Marcos Pérez Talia Paraguay’s political history is full of presidents and leaders of all kinds. Intellectuals, charismatic, corrupt, sullen, irascible, authoritarian, etc. The one who stands out is Manuel Gondra -twice president of the Republic- who remains... More »
Jorge Rolón Luna * Today’s world is ruled by crooks and thieves; moreover, traffickers, pirates and smugglers are reshaping it according to their interests, affecting governments, violating societies and undermining democracies, argue Olivier Bullough and Mois... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola Faced with the threat of impeachment, the unions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office summoned a meeting for Friday, February 18. In the announcement, they called to “discuss the current situation of minimum conditions to exercise the work in ... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna * At the end of last year we published a series of articles in which we analyzed the phenomenon of hired assassination from its conceptual, legal and criminal aspects and added its unprecedented quantitative aspects. The numbers of hired as... More »
By Pablo Daniel Magee * It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the cold-blooded execution of presumed criminal Marcos Rojas and young influencer Cristina Vita Aranda by a sicario in the middle of the Ja’Umina music festival of San Bernardino (2022/01/30), moved ... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* Paraphrasing a character from the TV series “Fariña” that deals with the story of Galician drug traffickers, we can say that today it is easier to find illegal drugs on the street than it is to get a decent job in Paraguay. International o... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* “No way, not for 500.000 (guaranis), I wouldn’t do it for less than 15 or 20.000 dollars, not even if I were drunk.” That was the confession a hitman gave me for an article published a while back. The recent cases of hitmen make us recall ... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola In the comments on the daily reports of the Ministry of Health and Public Welfare (MOHPW) on the progress of COVID-19, there are often those who, based on the data, consider the vaccines are not working. If one takes a crude look at the dat... More »
By Pablo Daniel Magee What is really happening in Ukraine, and why is Russian President Vladimir Putin currently putting at risk a relative world peace over this territory? More »