Paraguay leader says uncle must face drug charges

[Judi Lynn]

Paraguay leader says uncle must face drug charges
Aug 18, 7:26 PM EDT

ASUNCION , Paraguay (AP) -- Paraguay's new president wants the country's anti-drug agency to treat his uncle like any other person wanted on trafficking charges, saying family ties won't protect any of his relatives.

Before taking office as president Thursday, Horacio Cartes' family became an issue on July 29, when uncle Juan Viveros Cartes was arrested in Uruguay for allegedly violating its airspace. Uruguayan officials allege the uncle was using a small plane to look for clandestine landing fields for drug smuggling.

Paraguayan authorities are now working to extradite the uncle back home, where he has been sought on drug-trafficking charges for years.

"For the president, kinship does not exist in this matter," Luis Rojas, the head of Paraguay's anti-drug agency, said Sunday. "He wants us to be relentless."

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1. Oh, dear...

So, besides being the king of smuggling and money laundering, his uncle is also wanted for being a drug lord. So much exactly what one would expect from a member of Paraguay's Colorado Party.

Let's see how the President of Paraguay will act if police arrest his uncle... unbelievable, Paraguayans need to do something.

Thanks for sharing!

[Judi Lynn]

2. What a bunch of winners they are in the Colorado Party,

whose own leader, Stroessner stayed in office over 35 years (no one screeched in the US about what a dictator he was, of course, since he was right-wing), who also gave shelter to the Nazi butcher of Auschwitz, Josef Mengele, so he couldn't be tried, who also tortured, and murdered indigenous citizens, and forced some of them, including their children, into slavery.

What a bunch of ghouls these creeps are. They couldn't survive, if it weren't for their lives of stealing, fraud, back-stabbing, scheming, plotting, murdering, lying. It's all going to catch up with them, in the end. It will be too bad if they don't sell tickets. We know the dirty press will not cover it, either, to bring laughs for the rest of us.

Thanks goodness for the internet.