The mayor of the Paraguayan city of Pedro Juan Caballero, border with Brazil, Jose Carlos Acevedo who was shot five days ago in an attack, died this Sunday, a medical spokesman reported.
“He was brain dead and his death was later recorded,” doctor David Peña told reporters. The mayor, 51, he was the brother of Ronald Acevedo, governor of the department of Amambay whose 21-year-old daughter was also shot to death in October last year while leaving a nightclub.
The researchers identified four assassins like the perpetrators of the attack, who are presumed to have escaped to Brazil. Two women were arrested during investigations.
Another brother of the mayor, the expresident of Congress Roberto Acevedosuffered two attacks and finally died of covid in 2021.
Pedro Juan Caballero, capital of Amambay, borders Ponta Porá (Brazil, from which it is divided by an avenue, and is the epicenter of smuggling and trafficking in prohibited drugs, according to the police.
The suspects appear in the police file as protagonists of a gang war that fight for the control of the routes of marijuana and cocaine bound for Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Europe.
