If a week ago they told us that July 22 was going to be the day where one of the most powerful men in the country would be marked by the United States Government as “significantly corrupt”, no one would believe him, but that’s how that started. Friday.
“During his mandate, Horacio Cartes used the presidency of Paraguay to obstruct an investigation of transnational crime involving his partner…” Thus began part of the conference led by the North American Ambassador, without mentioning the name of Darío Messer, to continue with what seems to me to be the most forceful phrase: “This allowed Horacio Cartes to continue participating in corrupt activities, including his ties with terrorist organizations and other entities sanctioned by the United States.” TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, gentlemen, this is crazy, more so with him who is always carrying Israel in his mouth, one of the peoples most suffered by terrorist attacks, it is a slap in the face.
You have to be realistic, in this country being called “significantly corrupt” means nothing or else look at the former State Attorney General Javier Díaz Verón, or the former Senator Oscar Gonzales Daher, or the Colorado Deputy Ulises Quintana, who have already been named like this and here nothing happened with the kidnapped Paraguayan justice. Finally, the people will give their verdict when the red inmates arrive between Peña (Horacio Cartes’s candidate) and the current vice president, Hugo Velázquez. Giving my opinion, I will say that neither of them has a clean resume and they must be the worst that the Colorado Party has, including Deputy Alliana.
But back to the subject, with this designation the former president and his three children are denied entry into the United States.
I will close with a phrase from my mother: “Greater fortunes have fallen, why not yours.”
