The former candidate for president of Paraguay for the National Crusade, Paraguayo Cubas, was arrested this afternoon in the middle of a speech he was giving to followers, for “disturbing public order”, in a fact that could be seen on the same social networks of the former legislator.
Cubas was giving a speech in the city of San Lorenzo, neighboring Asunción, before militants and supporters who support his denunciations that there was fraud in the elections on Sunday, which was won by the ruling party Santiago Peña.
The transmission on Facebook showed that the former candidate smiles, ironically with the agents who are going to arrest him and even insists that they should handcuff him.
“All the criminals in this country have to be handcuffed like Paraguayan Cubas,” said the leader while they took him to a van to comply with the request of the Public Ministry.
Back in the truck, Cubas continued transmitting with his mobile phone, still handcuffed, and, in the midst of movements and audio cuts, he is heard saying “one more jail” and “we make the Homeland.”
“This is how (former President Horacio) Cartes should be, this is how Santi (Peña, the elected president) should be,” says Cubas, who denounces that “the tanks are coming out, that they should go to guard the borders.”
Asunción and the surrounding areas are experiencing an unusual military movement due to the preparations for a parade that will take place on Sunday, according to the ABC Color newspaper.
Cubas had announced days ago that he would arrive in the capital to demonstrate in front of the Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) from Ciudad del Este, but he made stops in other cities.
On the nights of Sunday and Monday, Cubas’s supporters blocked several routes, attacked ambulances and clashed on several occasions with the National Police in the framework of a series of protests in which they denounced electoral fraud.
Controversial and unclassifiable from an ideological point of view, “Payo” Cubas was a surprise in the elections, obtaining almost 23% of the votes, although some polls showed that he would capitalize part of the opposition vote.
A former senator, he has been gaining popularity in recent years with a transgressive way of acting, which included defecating in court after hitting a judge with a belt – his photo when the Police took him with his pants down was notorious – or having been arrested for painting graffiti in the house of former State Attorney General Javier Díaz Verón.
In addition, he hit police officers, threw water at his colleagues Juan Carlos Galaverna and Fernando Lugo in the Senate and had a strong clash with fellow legislator Enrique Riera, with whom he came to blows in the middle of the session room.
This same week, he recorded a video in which he called his detained followers “girls” who were demanding legal assistance and warned them that they should be “willing to jail and death” for the country.
Source: Ambito
