The cold and humid Saturday night did not prevent the Cordillera Republican Force leadership from arriving en masse in Caacupé, where an act took place last night that had as protagonists the presidential candidate “Toro” Velázquez, Mario Abdo, candidate to preside over the ANR and Denis Lichi , candidate for the Government of Cordillera.
The Vice President asked the grassroots leadership of the department to help free the Colorado Party, currently kidnapped by Chartism. “The good Colorados are tired of the current management of the party. We must recover with Mario Abdo the partisan family to meet the needs of the people. The party needs us, Paraguay needs us,” said Velázquez.
Using the phrase of a deceased Colorado caudillo, El Toro sent a message to Horacio Cartes:
“Ape ndaipori pyta ryryi, ndaipori tucuchili, iputa karona pire, ha toroicha ro ran over to the Government Palace,” he said.
For his part, Mario Abdo said that he kept his word that he was going to fight for the ANR, so Horacio Cartes was running for the same position. He said that he is going to face his predecessor in front of him and not hiding behind the media that are financed with illegal money.
He also stressed that Cartes gets angry at the things he does himself. «He is angry because recently that Iranian plane that came here, there were Tabesa cigarettes, and what fault do I have that the Tabesa cigarettes were there, on a plane where the crew were all terrorists? What fault do I have? I am going to investigate my part and if there is any member of my government, someone from Dinac, from Customs, who has been an accomplice of terrorism, let the full weight of the law fall on the officials who are accomplices of terrorism. But his cigarettes were there. His company was on that plane, his company that he sold to his own company in the United States. And what fault do I have that this happened there? What fault do I have that his representative in Israel, his referent who took him on a trip, Dario Messer, is today imprisoned in Brazil for money laundering? And that was his representative before the people of Israel; what fault do I have? But he gets mad at us. If he doesn’t want that to happen, let him not do it », referred the President of the Republic.
He also accused Cartes, who when he was president used foreign policy to do business. “I am going to tell you one thing, a lot of people tried to question the decisions I made in terms of foreign policy. And he used foreign policy to do business, because his north is money and you cannot govern when a person’s north is money. He used his relationship with Israel to do business. Or does he have no business with Israel? And his representative with Israel is in jail for money laundering. But who were the ones who really protected the people of Israel, who discovered the terrorists who wanted to destroy the State of Israel, us. With Taiwan the same thing, “said the President.
Finally, he said that power is there to serve the people and not to accumulate wealth, much less to protect criminals and criminal acts. “And that is the threat we have today. We have 2 models in front of us: we have a democracy with its imperfections and the other option is a criminal model that needs power so that they have impunity. They need the power to continue accumulating strategic assets that belong to the Paraguayan people. They use the resources of defamation and lies to destroy our institutions, which, as Nicanor said, which has paid deputies, is subordinate to Justice, for what? To remain an island of impunity for criminals in this country », he concluded.
