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During a televised debate, Paraguay's Interior Minister Enrique Riera accused criminologist Juan Martens of having links to organized crime after he linked a fatal attack on a police station to corruption and the actions of criminal factions in the Canindeyú department.
enrique-rierajuan-martenscanindeyutelefuturoejercito-del-pueblo-paraguayoAn expert reports that approximately one thousand flights carrying cocaine land monthly on clandestine airstrips in Paraguay, primarily in the Central region bordering the Paraguay River. From there, the drugs travel via the Paraguay-Paraná waterway to Europe or overland to Brazil and Argentina, in an operation facilitated by bribes and low state capacity.
juan-martensA seven-year ethnographic study has identified alleged networks for the sale of courses, certificates, and promotions within the National Police of Paraguay, where training and promotion processes would be transformed into economic transactions.
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