Paraguayan President Santiago Peña said on Friday (4) that espionage by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) reopens war wounds and that there is resentment against his country.
In an interview with Argentina’s Miter Radio, the Paraguayan president spoke for the first time about the information that came up this week after the UOL portal report that Abin had tried to invade the Paraguayan computer system between 2022 and 2023, “it was a very unpleasant news.”
“Paraguay has a very hard story in the region. At one point in our history we face an extermination war, as was the Triple Alliance War [conhecida no Brasil como Guerra do Paraguai]with three brothers, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, but mainly led by Brazil, ”he said, about the conflict that passed between 1864 and 1870.
He said that after the war, “Brazil has stayed in the Paraguayan territory for almost a decade” and added: “These are wounds that we are seeking to heal, and this episode, unfortunately, opens these old wounds, when we want to leave behind this story of hatred, resentment, that came from outside against Paraguay, and today we realize that there is still that feeling.”
“We see with a tremendous concern,” he exclaimed about the episode, which he defined as a “impasse” and said he doesn’t match “a friendship relationship, members, friends” that Paraguay proposes, to “build a stronger Mercosur.”
Peña also said that Paraguay could have suffered Chinese hackers attacks, but did not imagine that their country would be the target of Brazil. “We never imagined that we would be subject to the spying of our brothers, our neighbors, the Brazilians,” he concluded.
This content was originally published in Paraguayan President: Brazil’s Espionage Case reopens War Wounds on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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