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The roundtable discussion was attended by Karina Rodriguez, Congresswoman, journalist Enrique Vargas Peña and Simon Cazal, founder of the Organization SOMOSGAY. Patricia Vargas, journalist at the Ultima Hora newspaper was present as well as the discussion moderator.
Enrique Vargas Peña, started the discussion group and said: "When Mr. Yamil Esgaib presents this ordinance faced as a "respectable gentleman" , the only thing that is in charge is to curtail freedom of citizens.This ordinance considered that we are all "thugs" and suspects." He said we should not stay in anecdotes, but get to the bottom of the response, and investigate the forces behind this. "He who controls fault, controls power and can be erected judge. What they want here is to generate the idea that if you drink at 4 am you are guilty if you go out at 5am you are guilty. It is important to assert the opposite idea and why we should not accept that some crooks repressors influence how we conduct ourselves as a society," concluded Vargas Peña.
Then Deputy Karina Rodriguez added: "The problem itself is not only setting limits and saying that the young can not take care of themselves , but to understand our youth with their right to speak, to live freely and organize their time as they want. Alcohol and drugs? There are ordinances that are in place in terms of the sale of alcohol to minors which we all know are not being met."
He said that if we limit the idea of the Edict, that "only at night our youth are exposed to danger, we are extremely wrong." It is unacceptable that in the capital of our country, in order to prevent violence , avoid excess alcohol, and avoid accidents we have to offer state policies to say "stay in your homes, and be careful not to leave because it's dangerous out there." Here the concern is to know what there is behind all of this" concluded the Deputy.
Simon Cazal said that we are willing to cut a freedom of people, just to have what we call a feeling of "security.”
"We could say then that our city is like a “giant headquarter" as Stroessner taught us, and that is how paraguayan common sense is infected by authoritarianism".
For LGBT people, who should be locked up all week in an office, a business, a job where the working week is reduced, the disco is your escape to be who you really are and have a good time." This Edict, all it does is to get us back to the closet, and it's something we can not afford," he concluded.
SOMOSGAY rejects this ordinance, in addition to not generate positive results for society in relation to the decrease in street fights and excessive consumption of alcohol, seeks to establish measures of a totalitarian regime that our country has been disconnected for 24 years.