By Jorge Rolón Luna The agreement of a large sector of the opposition to the governing party has resulted in the creation of the Concertation to compete in the 2023 presidential elections. This Concertation intends to use the Permanent Civic Registry (RCP) as ... More »
By Marcos Pérez Talia Now that the Concertation, as a legal figure, has become unobjectionable to the opposition, new disagreements arise regarding the type of election of the presidential candidacy. When it seemed that the internal election by open register ... 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 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 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 Jorge Rolón Luna* Discussing hired assassination as a criminal type requires, for various reasons, special care with the terminology to be used. The conceptual problem, which does not admit exceptions – media, journalists, academics, even – leads to misunde... More »
By Pablo Daniel Magee You don’t want to rush things and jump to illegitimate conclusions when you spend eight years writing a book. Although all the facts about Che Guevara I had gathered up to then looked fairly convincing, I still had to go through some thor... More »
By Pablo Daniel Magee * When I first arrived in Paraguay, it looked like I had a long way ahead of me. My days were planned between the Palace of Justice, where I was bound to study the four tons of archive of the Condor Operation placed under the protection o... More »