Category: Paraguay

  • “You don’t arrest Voltaire”: Freedom of Speech in Paraguay

    “You don’t arrest Voltaire”: Freedom of Speech in Paraguay

    Christine Folch & Juan Carlos Duré Bañuelos On September 2, 2020 in rural Yby Yaú, Concepción Department (Paraguay), a military operation against a criminal group ended in the deaths of two 11-year-old girls—an operation which Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez declared a “success.” Beyond the matter of who is to blame, no operation can ever…