The corrupt Kirchner regime had gay marriage before your country did.
And Minnesota still haven't.
For what reason? Is Minnesota a corrupt regime as well, or simply a gay-unfriendly one?
Anybody know what the hell Beloved Fatherland stands/stood for?
I remember when they did really well in 2003, the NYT ran an article attempting to lump them in with the red wave.
More recently I only see them referenced to as conservative but with few further details.
I'm also surprised they ran someone other than Pedro Fadul, as I assumed it was just based around him.
If the NYT labelled that Beloved Fatherland as part of any 'red wave', I think it's only a clear sign of the ignorance which US and Western media treat politics in Latin America. Pedro Fadul is an entrepreneur like Horacio Cortés, though it seems that he sold a successful company on the financial market to devote himself to poltics. What the Spanish Wiki says is that Fadul is religious, president of a Catholic entrepreneur's association and presumably a social conservative, and has collaborated with the Church in some charitable foundations and initiatives. Also he's a charter member of the Paraguayan subsidiary of Transparency International. I'd say that Beloved Fatherland, clearly Fadul's personal vehicle, is economically liberal, socially conservative and advocates for fighting corruption. So probably it's a right-wing or center-right (populist or personalist as well) party opposed to the
Colorados.
The Beloved Fatherland Party was previously a Foundation, called now
Fundación Feliciano Martínez, honouring a deceased Paraguayan mayor. You can see a brief hagiography of the
Loco Martínez here. Fadul is the bearded man in the photo that portrays the article.
http://patriaquerida.org/feliciano.html
