“Where are you, Dad?” Oscar Denis’s family seeks answers six years after his abduction

Six years after Oscar Denis was taken from his ranch, his daughters returned to the place where their father disappeared and demanded answers.

Silvana, Beatriz and Lorena Denis placed memorial plaques at Estancia Tranquerita in Bella Vista Norte, Amambay, the site from which the former vice president and rancher was abducted. The memorial is intended to keep both his memory and the search alive.

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any Paraguayan who may know something

Denis was kidnapped on September 9, 2020, by members of the armed group known as the Paraguayan People’s Army, or EPP. The family’s slogan is “Let’s find the three,” referring also to police sub-officer Edelio Morínigo, abducted in 2014, and rancher Félix Urbieta, taken in 2016.

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We will keep insisting until we find him.

The article says the governments of former president Mario Abdo Benítez and current President Santiago Peña made promises, but authorities have not given the Denis family news about the politician’s fate. Lorena Denis said the family would hold a news conference at 9:09 a.m. on Wednesday, matching the date of the kidnapping, and appeal not only to the government but to “any Paraguayan who may know something.”

Beatriz Denis said she and her sisters remained determined to continue the search. “We will keep insisting until we find him,” she said. She also said the government did not appear to treat the cases of Denis, Morínigo and Urbieta as a priority. “We want their search to be a priority, that is what we are asking the authorities,” she said.

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We want their search to be a priority, that is what we are asking the authorities.