The candidate for Senator for Honor Colorado, Fernando Ojeda, questioned that the government of Mario Abdo Benítez is characterized by keeping people linked to drug trafficking in its ranks.
“The ruling party says that it is the government where more people related to drug trafficking fell, but It is the government with the most people linked to the scourge. This is really creepy, very worrying. Here the image of Paraguay ended up being damaged. Whoever falls falls was the opposite, that was just a double discourse, people linked to drug trafficking positioned this government, ”he said in an interview with 780 AM radio.
The Colorado politician also assured that the ruling party managed to position himself during the internal party elections for the presidency in 2017, with the scourge funding.
According to collects the newspaper La Naciónmonths ago a report with official data regarding the rise of drug trafficking during the management of the head of state was presented to the National Congress, which argues that in the last three years 47 tons of Paraguayan cocaineboth in local territory and in European seaports.
The report presented by Senator Enrique Riera indicates that, of the total drug trafficked, only 10% is seized and estimates that around Paraguay moved 470 tons of the white powder, which has a market value of almost US$2.5 billion.
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Regarding the electoral bid towards the internal elections for next December 18, Fernando Ojeda said that the dissidence will have a great victory against the ruling party sector, arguing that the movement does not represent only an electoral alternative.
“Honor Colorado is still very much in force within the ANR because it is not an electoral movement, it is a sector that thinks in the long term. We are going to return to the principles and values of the party. The surveys are a photograph, but the citizen perception is better, I visited practically all the departments and hope is perceived towards Peña’s project compared to the model that we are suffering ”,
