Gerónimo Alaya on the campaign trail. Source: Facebook (Movimiento Indígena Plurinacional). Public Domain.
On April 22, Mario Abdo Benítez, known as Marito, from the Conservative Colorado Party (which has ruled the country 66 out of the last 70 years), won the presidential elections in Paraguay by a narrow margin.
He is the son of the late dictator Alfredo Stroessner’s private secretary and the co-founder (with the dictator’s grandson) of the Peace and Progress Movement. According to him, Stroessner did much for the country, although he says that he does not defend his human rights record.
