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Paraguayan government accused of routing ad spending to friendly media during World Cup

"The recently concluded World Cup was used by Santiago Peña's government to divert public resources—primarily coming from Itaipú Binacional and the Entidad Binacional Yacyretá—to broadcast pro-government advertisements.

Under the guise of launching the campaign "Somos Paraguayos, Somos Gigantes" (We Are Paraguayans, We Are Giants)—a name similar to two pages that are part of the Disinformation Network: "Somos Paraguay" and "Rugir de un Gigante"—the government squandered immeasurable public resources to embed government content in media belonging to Grupo Vázquez, which is aligned with President Santiago Peña.

Grupo Vázquez, through its company V Media SA, has been executing a rapid media consolidation process, having recently acquired channels Trece and Unicanal."

Read the full article in Spanish.