Guillermo Ferreiro affirmed that the wave of violence and hired assassins is the consequence of the country model that has been created. He points out that the institutions, in the best of cases, do not fulfill their functions, or at worst, are managed directly by drug money.
“It is a political problem. Not in the sense of partisan politics. We have institutions like Seprelad that do not see any of the drug traffickers that are shown in Asunción. The same thing happens with the Prosecutor’s Office, which only moves when they have pressure from the United States,” he said.
The analyst urges that State policies be changed since, otherwise, more cases of hired assassins will occur in the capital.
“Many people compare our country with Colombia in the 1980s, but it’s not true. They had dozens of police officers killed by drug traffickers. About 100 prosecutors, judges and investigators died because the State was against the system. It will not happen here because the institutions are subject and are complicit,” he said.
He regretted that institutions such as Seprelad, the Prosecutor’s Office, the National Intelligence Secretariat (SNI), the Ministry of the Interior and the Judiciary, focus on persecuting the middle class but not people with resources.
“The State is responsible for what is happening. The violence generated by drug trafficking is only increasing,” he said.
Regarding the work of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Intelligence Secretariat (SNI), he affirmed that they are corrupt institutions and with the inefficiency that characterizes the entire State.
“There is still no efficient internal corruption control system. The permeability is total. You don’t see a state confrontation against drug trafficking,” he said.
Finally, he said that the change of ministers is not the solution. He stressed that security policies and clean-up policies for institutions are necessary.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Selva Castiñeira, a political analyst, affirms that, if Paraguayan justice is not independent of politics, acting accordingly with exemplary punishments against crime, we are destined to be a country governed by these criminal groups.
“Narcopolitics is not new in the Paraguayan political scene. Increasingly, the state is permissive with all kinds of criminal groups in which they act without fear of anything because, after all, they do it knowing that they have political support that intervenes in justice to favor them, “he said.
For Castiñeira, Paraguay is a paradise for criminal groups, because in justice it is known as the justice of political influences or the purchase of it.
“The institutions are weak and do not offer guarantees, it is an open secret that there is nothing and no one that cannot be bought or is incorruptible because this works in a systemic way, they are part of political movements, parties and part of the government,” he said.
