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Weekly Report - 01 December 2022 (WR-22-48)
PARAGUAY: Supreme court rocked by scandal
Paraguay has been consumed by a scandal sparked by revelations that the son of the president of the supreme court (CSJ), a lawyer, represented a Brazilian citizen arrested for drug trafficking and seeking a ‘legal way out’ of extradition to the US. President Mario Abdo Benítez called upon the president of the CSJ, Antonio Fretes, to consider tendering his resignation, while the political opposition presented an impeachment motion in congress against the magistrate, decrying something rotten at the heart of Paraguay’s judiciary. Denying any wrongdoing, Fretes took leave of absence, but has been on the receiving end of ‘escraches’, loud personally directed protests outside his house, and now faces calls from the full CSJ and congress to resign.
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