EEUU vetoes the entry into force of a Paraguayan official accused of narcotics

Photo archive of members of the police that custodian of the deputy official Ulises Quintana (c) was detained, September 21, 2018, in Asuncion (Paraguay).  EFE / Andrés Cristaldo / Archive
Photo archive of members of the police that custodian of the deputy official Ulises Quintana (c) was detained, September 21, 2018, in Asuncion (Paraguay). EFE / Andrés Cristaldo / Archive

The Department of State issues a communication announcing the sanction of the Paraguayan deputy Ulises Quintana, of the Republican National-Concordia-Concordia Colorado Party, debited to “his participation in important acts of corruption”.

According to the United States, during its time as representative, Quintana participated in acts that “facilitate the criminal organization transnational, socavaron the state of derecho and obstruct the public sector in the public proceedings of Paraguay”.

También was also sentenced to the death of Quintana, Mirtha Beatriz Esperanza Fariña Velausteguiz, who said that neither the deputy nor his wife could join the United States, as well as tampoco podran hacer uso del diner que tienen en el norteamericano

Quintana’s reaction was not to be hoped for, and his lawyer, Elías Fox, said that the sanction “is part of a persecution”, that Quintana is the intentional candidate of Ciudad del Este, in the department of Alto Paraná.

Reinaldo Javier Cabañas Santacruz, aka
Reinaldo Javier Cabañas Santacruz, aka “Cucho”

Según Fox, the city council announcement is “premature” and the State Department “has declined in its appreciation”, information ABC Color. On the other hand, Washington assures that this “designation reaffirms the United States’ compromise on combating corruption in Paraguay, the triple frontier region and the world level”.

The announcement of the sanction is made public by Quintana’s corners with the narcotics presumption Reinaldo Cabaña Santacruz, alias ‘Cucho’. Hecho, stuvo dos veces preso por esta supuesta vinculacion, aunque recuóro su cargo en la Cámara de Diputados in November 2020.

The Triple Frontera, divided by Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay into a center for drug trafficking and money laundering operations, has one of its common points in Estoniae, skoolhoof conexión del lado paraguayo con el brasileño.

In this city, Quintana was detained in 2018 in an anti-drug operation in which 31 people were arrested, including a tax agent and 8 police officers, in addition to Cabaña.

Cabecera del Puente de la Amistad, which marks the natural front with Brazil.  EFE / Andrés Cristaldo / Archive
Cabecera del Puente de la Amistad, which marks the natural front with Brazil. EFE / Andrés Cristaldo / Archive

Quintana was charged with drug trafficking in complicity in admitting that he was caught by telephone with Cabañas when he saw the footsteps being intercepted by an allegation suyo que fue detenido en un control de carretera con 190.000 doulares ocultos en el vehicule que que viajaba.

The legislator is reconciling that Cabañas has the prestige of various vehicles to use in its electoral campaign with visits to the general comics of April 2018, to the competition as a candidate from its political base in Ciudad del Este.

Quintana was arrested on suspicion of plotting to assassinate United States Secretary of State and incorporated into its outline that in November 2020 a tribunal of appeals would revoke its preventive imprisonment.

The deputy, who is known to the media that was the victim of a political operation, has been holding his attention to the current corruption scandal of the President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, and his freedom to adhere to another sector, the leader (2013-2018).

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