An important crowd has gathered in the Municipality of Pedro Juan Caballero to say goodbye to Mayor José Carlos Acevedo, who will be buried this afternoon in a Ponta Porâ cemetery.
Friends, relatives, municipal officials as well as supporters of the PLRA and citizens in general arrived this afternoon at the municipal palace where José Carlos Acevedo was being held.
The community chief from Pedro Juan died last night, hours after it was confirmed that he was brain dead, but not before fighting for his life for several days at the Viva Vida Sanatorium.
The funeral procession will leave for the headquarters of Radio Amambay AM, owned by the Acevedo family, and later will go to the Perpetuo Socorro church, where the funeral will take place.
Once the religious service is completed, the coffin will be taken in a caravan to the Cristo Rey cemetery in the Brazilian city of Ponta Porâ, a place where the mortal remains of the person who was the mayor of Pedro Juan Caballero in life will be deposited.
The death of José Carlos Acevedo caused great commotion in the population of the department of Amambay and in the general public, above all because it was a municipal authority victim of an attack perpetrated by hired assassins.
The Municipality of Pedro Juan Caballero and the Government of Amambay decreed three days of mourning after the tragic death of the liberal politician.
