Some people will remember it, others through this note will become aware of Horacio Cartes’ forceful statement, in April 2013, when in the middle of the electoral campaign, in an interview with Victor Benitez on Chaco Boreal radio, the host asked him: what would you do if your son tells him “I want to marry Robertito” to which Cartes bluntly replied: “I’m going to shoot myself in the balls, honestly, my son lacks nothing”
9 years have passed since those high-sounding declarations; her son did not marry Robertito, he has much more than at that time, but he and his brothers will not be able to enter the United States for a long time, unless everything changes one hundred and eighty degrees in the immigration policy of said country.
The State Department of the northern country seems not to have taken into account the homophobic background of the former president, nor a series of picturesque statements in recent years, but rather other types of activities -profusely publicized, which I take for all known- that They have little to do in times of Expo 2022, with the Champion Bull of our rodeo.
Judging by the statements of the Ambassador Marc Osfield, The United States is not very concerned about these domestic issues: bedroom problems, overt or covert sexuality, etc. Our traditions do not carry as much weight in international politics as money laundering, the link to terrorism, influence peddling and other crimes of the border businessman’s clan, that have been occurring systematically, despite some warnings that the Embassy of Mariscal López and Brasilia made on previous occasions.
A little over a year ago, Ambassador Ostfield presented his credential letters and these days he once again ratified that he has been happily married for 33 years, with a serenity that contrasts with the political earthquake generated by the press conference last Friday 22 of July.
Cartes supporters do not find this week what stronger epithet – than the well-known four-letter noun – they should utter to try to disqualify the ambassador’s marital relationship.
The Peña-Alliana duo, faced with the cataracts of memes, comments and information circulation in the main world media, do somersaults and other Olympic skills to hide the sun that continues to heat up local politics and that puts them closer to the Circus du Soleil – who returned a month ago after the pandemic – than from the center of the electoral campaign.
Corruption is not a crime
Not to mention the hurreros and supporters of the exiled Cartes. Some fans appear who, in an effort to comfort him, ratify his trust and recommend that he not worry about not traveling. In his Paraguay he has everything and these people of dubious morals are not going to come to teach us what corruption is. If he’s corrupt, he’s our corrupt, said a well-known journalist come to less, to finish rummaging in the tired argument of interference in internal affairs. As if this were not enough, the candidate for Senator for Honor Colorado, María Teresa Peralta, affirmed “Corruption is not a crime.”
Roman law describes the crime as “illicit acts from which obligations are derived that are sanctioned with a penalty”. Surely, candidate Peralta is unaware that before reaching our positive law we passed through the Law of Talion, where the guilty party was punished with the same offense caused. If you were punished for proselytizing – being director of the electoral registry – by the ministers of the Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) Jaime Bestard and Alberto Ramírez Zambonini, do you think this happened because it was New Year? It was not because it was a crime to appear in the photo next to Cartes and Peña. At the time of the Talion, they would have cut off his hands, because it is the part of the body with which one votes. Fortunately, the law advanced in rationality and justice, but to his regret, these facts are still considered a crime. I respectfully recommend a crash course on anti-corruption, before you make it, if you make it, to the Senate. The country needs people with clear ideas.
A country without journalists
It was the last month of 2017 and the former president, taking advantage of an official act and forgetting that there are several colleagues who work in his media, dispatched: “They only have a microphone and a piece of paper to write on.” Totally true, they are the weapons that any honest journalist has, who does not sell his convictions or principles to the patron of the day. That is also a form of corruption. And buying journalists taking advantage of the need of the scribes’ guild is also another form of corruption. Perhaps, busy with so many simultaneous and dubious deals, according to the American Embassy, he did not have time to read the guardian dog theory that comes from the American school, about the role of media control with governments. .
“The country works better without them” and continued with the threat to a couple of journalists, after the congress was burned down in protest at his re-election, to conclude: “They deserve to be in prison.” From that March 31, 2017 to date, it seems that our little big man has changed his mind. Your business works better with themjudging by the increase in their journalistic investments and the “independence exhibited by the editorials and covers of their captive media”. The image of the note is a gift and is that of the well-known Pedro Flintstone comics. Any coincidence or resemblance is mere chance.
Let’s go back to July 2022. He stopped being president and his businesses grew exponentially to the point of planting a service station in front of the very American embassy. Impunity has these things, because power is dizzying and you won’t be the only one to fall seduced by the vapors of alcohol from friends and other gifts. Today he is determined to dilute, disappear or tarnish such an accusation. He wants to ensure that the entire country, the region and the world look the other way and life continues as if nothing had happened.
What you can hardly forget is that the accusation of the American Embassy by the hand of the Ambassador that his supporters discredit, made a testicular target, without the need for you to fire a single shot. Honestly, you don’t lack anything, just be credible.
