Conservatives may keep power as Paraguay votes
The US-educated son of a top aide to Paraguay’s late dictator is favourite to win today’s presidential election in one of Latin America’s poorest countries. Opinion polls give Mario Abdo Benitez of the ruling conservative Colorado party a clear lead over his centrist opponent, Efrain Alegre, in a two-horse race to succeed outgoing conservative President Horacio Cartes.
Landlocked Paraguay-sandwiched between Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil-has enjoyed consistent economic growth under tobacco magnate Cartes, but has failed to shrug off persistent poverty, corruption and drug trafficking.
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