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Paraguayan police killed a parliamentarian in a violent region of the country during a shootout that erupted in an overnight raid on his house where officers and prosecutors had arrived to search for evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.

The U.S. government announced new sanctions against Paraguayan tobacco company Tabacalera del Este S.A. (Tabesa) for financially supporting former President Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara, who himself was sanctioned last year for alleged corruption and ties to terrorism.

President Santiago Peña described the operation as "historic" and maintained that the fight against organized crime in Paraguay's prisons will not be easy or short