Nemesio Barreto Monzón 08 juni 2006 – 17:26

Who were the old boss of Mrs. Leila Rachid in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs? Very good people, ”human rights fighter”, Leila Rachid collaborated in the beginning by the chancellor of the Operation Condor, Dr Alberto Nogues (1976-1983), Dr Carlos Augusto Saldívar (1983-1988) and Dr Rodney Elpidio Acevedo (1988-1989), former Paraguayan ambassador before the government of the generalissimo Francisco Franco. Without subtracting merits, is always healthy, since there are fearsome collaborators of the dictator Stroessner hiding behind these “knights of the past”.
These past collaborators of Stroessner did not make the dirty work of the Head of Investigations, Pastor Coronel. Clear that not, its function was to deny the violations of the human rights committed by the dictatorship. This was the task that shared with its heads (between 1980-1989) the present Minister for Foreign Affairs. The head of Mrs. Leila Rachid in the Chancellery was Francisco Barreiro Maffiodo, who wrote in the daily ”Patria”, official organ of Stroessner, under the pseudonym of “Poncho Pytá” (Red Poncho).
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Paraguay, in a letter to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, dated February 22, 1983, signed by the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Francisco Barreiro Maffiodo, referred to the case of Luis Alfonso Resck by remitting a clipping from the newspaper, ”Hoy”, of that same date, February 22, 1983, in which appears an interview granted to the UPI news agency by the Minister of the Interior, Dr. Sabino Montanaro. The pertinent parts of this interview are as follows: Asuncion, 21 (UPI): The Paraguayan Minister of the Interior, Sabino Montanaro, said that political exiles, except one whom he called "mentally unbalanced" and another whom he linked to communism, may return to Paraguay individually, but not in a group. According to Montanaro, the "mentally unbalanced person" is the founder of the Christian Democratic Party, Luis Alfonso Resck, and the person associated with Marxism is the well-known writer, Augusto Roa Bastos. When questioned about the reason that the Christian Democratic Party was not recognized officially, Montanaro stated that it was a matter for the courts which the government "may not force to adopt a decision since the Judicial Branch is independent." Furthermore, Montanaro questioned whether the Christian Democrats have even one percent of the electorate and stated that the founder of the party, Luis Alfonso Resck, was deported because he is "mentally unbalanced" and "an inciter to rebellion." He accused Resck of organizing students to "rise up against the government" and added that, according to intelligence services, they were preparing subversive acts and thus, "as a preventive measure, we expelled Resck....." Montanaro stated that the other exiles may return to the country, including dissidents of the official Colorado Party, but they must do so "one by one, not in a group, to prevent a tumult and to allow us to control their activities...."
In effect, on one hand, in the notes referred to above, the government maintains that Laino, Resck and Roa Bastos chose to leave the country after being detained under the authority of Article 79 of the National Constitution, thus giving the impression that they did so voluntarily, and on the other, the Minister of the Interior states to the press that Mr. Laino was deported "for having painted political slogans on walls in the streets, an act he considered the beginning of a destabilization campaign against the government," that Luis Alfonso Resck was deported because "he is a mentally unbalanced person and an inciter to rebellion" and that the other expelled person, the writer Roa Bastos, "has ties with Soviet and Cuban elements and wanted to give a lecture at a high school and a university" and that "before he could begin to indoctrinate our youth to organize guerrilla warfare or to rise up against the government, we expelled him from the country." Source:
http://www.cidh.org/annualrep/83.84.eng/Paraguay7848.htm
On Domingo Laíno, of Authentic Liberal Radical Authentic Party, exile to have published a book in opposition to extinct Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, Montanaro said that he was “dangerous by his connections with elements of left of other countries. He affirmed that Laíno, whose book was confiscated by the Government, was tie in Argentina with the Marxist Revolutionary army of the Town and with the Peronist guerrillas of left, denominated Montoneros. The reason for its deportation, indicated, was that Laíno was responsible by to have painted in the walls of the streets political mottos that considered like “the beginning of a campaign of destabilization of the Government”.
Mrs. Leila Rachid worked untiringly in the Chancellery of the Twig when Antonio Maidana and Emilio Roa disappeared in 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentine. His direct superior, as it is indicated, was then nothing less than Francisco Barreiro Maffiodo, the famous “Poncho Pytá”. At that time took place in Buenos Aires the controversial declarations of the general Marcial Samaniego, Minister of Defense of dictator Stroessner.
In effect, on August 30, 1980, Samaniego had made declarations to the press of which a “tacit pact between the governments of the South Cone” existed, putting in evidence the “antisubversive cooperation”, that existed between Argentina and Paraguay, in the “Condor Operation”. The affirmation of Samaniego was denied by general Reynaldo Bignone, that denied the existence of a “pact”, but admitted that a particular approach” between the countries of the South Cone existed “. In spite of the denial, Antonio Maidana and Emilio Roa disappeared just in those days in Argentine. (Source: Declarations of the minister of Defense Samaniego. Diario "Clarín". Buenos Aires, September 2, 1980, page, 8. Declarations of Reynaldo Bignone. Source: Diario "Clarín". Buenos Aires, September 7, 1980, pages 6-7. Official notice of the Argentina Chancellery: “We did not cause a pact of the South Cone, said Videla”. Source: Diario "Clarín". Buenos Aires, September 26, 1980, page 7).

When the government of Raul Alfonsín initiated contacts with opponents to the regime of Stroessner, in March of 1984, with the then “National Agreement” and with Doña Carmen de Lara Castro, Head of the Commission of Human rights, Mrs. Leila Rachid worked under the command of Rodney Elpidio Acevedo. Of course, Francisco Barreiro Maffiodo, was called to write in the daily “Patria”, on the “intolerable Argentina interference in the internal subjects” of the regime of Stroessner. On the other hand, 26 July of 1984, Rodney Elpidio Acevedo, undersecretary for Foreign Affairs of Stroessner, declared in Buenos Aires that the Paraguayan government “did not worry for the constitucional government of Raàºl Alfonsín”, but noticed that the regime of Stroessner “will not tolerate” interferences in its internal subjects. (Source: “Warning of a Paraguayan civil employee”. Diario “Clarín”. Buenos Aires, July 27, 1984, page 9).
By the end of September of 1984 dictator Stroessner closed the border with Argentina, for three days, in retaliation by the activity of the opponents from Argentine. For this reason, the ambassador Quijano was called for consultations to Buenos Aires. In the city of Clorinda an act against the regime of Stroessner had been made, which they attended Domingo Laíno and Luis Alfonso Resk, whom they had prohibited to enter Paraguay. The retailers of the border city of Clorinda, Province of Formosa, complained, reason why Stroessner decided “to standardize the border transit” on October 2, 1984. Source: Diario "Clarín”. Buenos Aires, October 2, 3, 6, 7, 1984.
In 1983 Stroessner dictator appoited as new Minister for Foreign Affairs to Carlos Augusto Saldívar, “recognized by his great negotiating ability… Already with him is inaugurated this new seat, in which we began to work with great enthusiasm by all its facilities”. (Source: Speech pronounced by Leila Rachid, when assuming the position as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Paraguay. Asunción, August 18, 2003). Mrs. Leila Rachid has really a stone face: she worked “with great enthusiasm” to the service of the twigs - in the Stroessners Chancellery- and today she works with “same enthusiasm” for the surviving victims of the dictatorship. With the inclusion of the Chancellor Leila Rachid, the Commission of Truth and Justice became a “mixture of goddess and panther”, because it does not have to be easy to join, for example, Jews and nazis to investigate the holocaust. But Monsignor Melanio Medina, species of misunderstood apostle and retired boxer, obtained a doubtful miracle: that victims and twigs are right now together and mixtured, that are almost better than the gospel, and better than the “Cambalache” (the well-known tango), of course.