Lino Cesar Oviedo in Paraguay

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Arriving in a leveling flight over sown lands and judicial condemnations, Lino Oviedo dialogues with America in a small farm located to few kilometers from the La PalomaÕs north-Paraguayan town.

You are the first members of the press that I receive officiously in the 30 completed days, knowing how to excuse me about my absence yesterday according climatic and technical inclemencies.

The encounter put in evidence serious misstatements of border control in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

I told to the press by radio that I journey part by land, other by air, another by vehicle of 4 wheels, another in motorcycle, another by horse and last 8 km. by walking.

Today 30 days they are completed since I have stepped Paraguayan land, specifically it was December 9^th 1999 at 06:25 hs. in an asphalted hint built by the government.

The public forces integrated by the police and the militaries, they are unhappy, as they are pawed, they are mistreated, its dignity, its honor has been knocked.

Though they are not controlled by the president?

Naturally, thatÕs why they don't find me neither they will be. At April 24^th I give up the Command of the Army in presence and with the approval and with a hug to President Wasmosy.

A mutinous cannot surrender with all the honors and with all the legal, military, administrative, and judicial demands. Since that has been a farce.

To me they have always put me the mutinous denominative and by this way with that denominative, I went to the urns and I win in the internal elections at September 7^th , 1997 for president of the republic of the Paraguay by the colorado party.

Today they want to impute me the deaths of youths in the square and the death of Dr. Arga–a. But the lies have short legs.

Who collect the benefits with this plot they are them and to those that less it interests them to clarify the death of those youths and of Dr. Arga–a they are them, because while they are not clarified, they can scare, pursue, capture, torture citizens, members of the party particularly to those that are not they obsequious to their outrages, to their corruptness and their impunity that continue prevailing and sharply in the Republic of Paraguay.

Been in prison, I worked in politics and in 17 days we made the Eng. Raul Cubas Grau president of the Republic of Paraguay. If I had not been unconstitutionally, illegally taken out of my presidential candidacy and being in prison. I had win from the prison.

And today I travel peacefully through the Republic of Paraguay, making politics. Politics for the common well-being.

There was any agreement between Fernando de la Rua, Carlos Menem and Lino Cesar Oviedo so that you abandon Argentina?

No, I don't have anything to do in that topic. Please.

I don't need to make it, I won't make it, in no way. For ethics, for respect and for gratitude.

I will never endanger a friend as he is, thatÕs why I left out of there.

Are you friend of Carlos Menem?

Oviedo

I had wanted to be his friend. I have had the chance to speak with him, in 5 opportunities.

The one that has to give that so expensive title it is him. One thing is know a person and another is to be friend of him.

They say that you are partner of Menem in some companies.

It is a great lie, I met him at 1993, and the first time that I had the opportunity to tell him "ItÕs my Pleasure" by protocol to the president Carlos Menem, was when he came to the act of transmission of command of the Eng. Wasmosy and later the next year in 1994, more or less in Argentina and later in some other of their trips.

In total it could have been 5 times. Could I have been the one?

They say that you live off a bound association with people belonging to smuggling, drug traffic, drug.

Look, I have a special demand to the countries of the first world that the only letter that they have that it can help Paraguay so that it doesn't become into a Colombia or into a Chiapas, it is "Lino Oviedo."

How do Oviedo lives?

Look, today, you know, I don't know to any of those who are here. But they will always give me a dish of food and they will always tell me "You are Welcome".

Did Gonzalez Macchi arrives at the 2003?

Never, he wouldnÕt pass this year, next weeks.

Why are you so convinced that he doesn't pass next weeks?

Because I am speaking with all the citizens of the republic. A majority class, the most loyal, the most marginal class and it is this mass that save this country in the war and in the peace.

Will you conditioned this mass to destabilize this government?

I won't drive them to destabilize.

Peacefully, everything it will already turn headstrong unmanageable and they will have to give up the power.

They should make a worthy and decorous exit, as Yeltsin do it recently.

I don't see Macchi with desires of giving up.

However he is not seen.

How will they force Gonzalez Macchi to give up?

However he is not almost always seen, he no longer goes to the palace.

It seems that walks giving up.

He is only an unofficial president, nothing else.