President Santiago Peña faces new accusations of lying about his relationship with a government collaborator. On Saturday, in San Lorenzo, Peña denied knowing Jimmy Villaverde, but the Presidency granted him a badge from the General Directorate of Presidential Information in July 2025 as a digital communicator. Villaverde is not a simple militant of cartismo, as Peña tries to make it seem, but rather a close collaborator of the government.
Evidence points to the origin of an alleged smear campaign against media outlets, journalists, and politicians critical of the cartista government. All paths would lead to the “lord of the helicopters,” an unidentified figure. The suspicion is that public funds may have been used to finance this campaign, but this has not yet been confirmed.
The head of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (Mitic), Villate, is pressured to resign for allegedly concealing data and trying to deceive the population. However, he is not expected to leave his post as he feels unpunished.
The president of Conmebol, Alejandro Domínguez, is the target of a serious accusation coming from the United States. An influential New York media outlet accuses him of having appropriated funds recovered from a corruption scandal. The accusation emerges a few days before the World Cup, and Domínguez can no longer attribute it to a “move” by a Paraguayan outlet.
Almost all parties and movements that will compete in the municipal primaries on June 7, except for cartismo, warn that the voting machines from the contracted company offer no guarantees. The Superior Electoral Justice Court (TSJE) defends the company, which was disqualified in the first bidding, raising suspicions.