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🇵🇾 Paraguay /Economy & Trade

To Hide Information, EBY Discredits the Justice Ministry

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Named sources Context piece
  • Paraguay’s Yacyretá binational entity continues to require applicants to identify themselves before processing public information requests, despite a 2024 Justice Ministry circular saying confidentiality cannot obstruct access requests.
  • ABC Color says Yacyretá has used the requirement to avoid disclosing its current personnel regulations and information about employee roles, bonuses and overtime payments.
  • The entity spent G. 2.938 billion on overtime in July, while 11 employees received more in overtime pay than their regular salaries.

Yacyretá is invoking the same legal requirement to keep public information out of reach, even after the Justice Ministry said the condition should not block access requests. The binational entity insists that applicants identify themselves, while the ministry’s 2024 guidance says the public information portal already verifies applicants with the Paraguayan state.

The dispute centers on request No. 106032, which sought the personnel regulations currently governing bonuses and overtime payments. After Yacyretá rejected the request because the applicant had not disclosed an identity, the requester asked the institution to reconsider and cited Justice Ministry Circular No. 01/2024.

Yacyretá rejected that argument again. Carlos Daniel Vera Mongelós, head of its Transparency Office, said the circular represented “an unauthorized broad interpretation of the law” and maintained that the requester had not met the requirements of Articles 12 and 13 of Law 5282/14.

ABC Color reports that the entity has repeatedly refused to identify the positions held by its employees, directing applicants to a portal that lists salaries and names in formats that cannot be processed easily. The portal does not indicate each employee’s job.

The issue has drawn attention as published figures show unusually high payments at Yacyretá. In July, 11 employees received more in overtime than their regular salaries, and the entity spent G. 2.938 billion on overtime. Some individual bonuses also exceeded G. 10 million. The article frames the dispute as an effort by Yacyretá to discredit the Justice Ministry while withholding information about public employees.

an unauthorized broad interpretation of the law

· Carlos Daniel Vera MongelósYacyretá’s head of transparency used the phrase to reject the Justice Ministry circular cited in a public information request.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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