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Weekly Report - 12 February 2015 (WR-15-06)
PARAGUAY: Protests mount against Cartes
Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes has endured one of his most uncomfortable weeks since taking office in August 2013. On 9 February the national daily, ABC Color, published revelations that he had opened two bank accounts at HSBC’s Swiss private bank that were included in the infamous ‘Falciani list’, raising fresh questions about the origins of his wealth. A day later two columns of several thousand campesinos converged on Asunción from the north and the east of Paraguay to protest against his government. And on 13 February thousands more are organising a protest in the capital after it was confirmed that the government will carry out geological prospecting in a national park in the western Chaco region.
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