Asunción, Agencia IP.- «Organized crime is looking for the jurisdictions and the weakest governments to carry out their actions,» said the President of the Republic, Santiago Peña, expressing «great concern» about the current situation in Ecuador.
«This does not happen overnight. This is a series of years of authorities and governments that decided to look to the side and think that a criminal act is not a problem, or that a criminal group that grows is not going to put a Nation at risk,» said the President during an event in which he gave recognition to agents of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad).
The recognition was for Senad agents and officials who participated in the Ignis and Dakovo operations, which dismantled criminal structures and requisitioned a significant amount of arsenal.
«Today, I come to pay tribute to the Senad officials and tell them that their small acts of courage, their daily decisions to do the right thing, do not go unnoticed; they are significant gestures that make the nation great,» said the President.
Peña expressed that a nation cannot develop without security and order; and that order is built «with those Paraguayans who choose to walk the path of the law, combating those criminal groups.»
«Our actions did not end with Dakovo, Ignis, or Veneratio; it’s just beginning because organized crime will come back stronger to try to confront law enforcement,» warned the President.
In that sense, he indicated that just as crime organizes itself, the state, the government, and Paraguayan society at all levels also confront it.
He pointed out that success in this fight is achieved «when more citizens unite for just causes, when we demonstrate that it is worth doing things right, and when we have more and more authorities and leaders who value the small acts of courage that go unnoticed.»
«Today, more than coming to celebrate these great operations, I come to honor the small acts of courage that are done every day, that remain anonymous, that are not recognized, but that make the difference for a nation to develop,» he concluded.