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Party indiscipline as a democratic problem

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia. The role played by po­lit­i­cal par­ties in con­tem­po­rary democ­ra­cies is fun­da­men­tal. They are key play­ers be­cause they ful­fill var­i­ous tasks that, as a whole, serve to make the po­lit­i­cal sys­tem op­er­a­tive. The is­sue is that some of their mult... More »

Pondering on the defeat of the Concertación

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia. Last April 30, a new de­feat of prob­a­bly the most im­por­tant op­po­si­tion front formed to com­pete against the Col­orado Party was con­sum­mated. The fi­nal dif­fer­ence, as huge as it was un­ex­pected, makes all ex­pla­na­tions seem valid. Here we seek... More »

Hitmen in Paraguay: A phenomenon that is becoming more complex?

By Jorge Rolón Luna.* There is no doubt that the as­sas­si­na­tion has be­come a phe­nom­e­non that pre­sents di­verse an­gles and that such a mul­ti­form face has be­come a char­ac­ter­is­tic. In May 2023 a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion thwarted an at­tack that was un­der­way, at least ac... More »

The Colorado Party: a power of divided forces

By Fer­nando Martínez Es­co­bar. The elec­toral strength ob­tained by the Col­orado Party (ANR) in the elec­tions of April 30 has re­vived the idea of the uni­fi­ca­tion of the ANR in the gov­ern­ment, but the idea of party unity is a myth that has been around for al­most 4... More »


Javier Milei and Payo Cubas. Counterpoints

By Lorena Soler.* Ar­gentina and Paraguay share a long com­mon his­tory. In ad­di­tion to the War of the Triple Al­liance, the death of Sarmiento, the ex­ile and re­turn of Perón, the re­turn of war tro­phies, po­lit­i­cal ex­iles and culi­nary transna­tion­al­iza­tion, they hav... More »


Does 2023 look more like 2003, 2008, 2013 or 2018?

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 »

Hired killings in 2022: geolocation. Hot spots and new locations

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 »

Poll war 2023: first round

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 »