4. The first raid: what really happened
- Jun 7
- 3 min read
Sometimes, a country faces its own ghosts.
And sometimes, those ghosts appear at the door of your home.
In this blog, I want to recount, with respect but with total clarity, what happened during the first raid I suffered.
Not to portray myself as a victim, but to leave a real, human and documented record of facts that, years later, still have no logical explanation within the Paraguayan legal framework.
That day began like any other… until armed men entered my home, my personal spaces, the privacy of my family.
They entered with visible weapons into rooms where minors were present, a fact that, from my perspective, contradicts basic protocols for action and child protection recognized both by Paraguayan law and by international treaties.
The judicial order was simple: raid and seizure of equipment.
But the way it was executed, from my perspective, was never simple, proportional or compatible with the basic guarantees of due process.
Throughout the entire procedure, I repeatedly heard the threat:
“We can arrest you right now.”
At every minute.
With every gesture.
Without being presented with any clear basis, without a single prior technical proof, without a concrete accusation.
Only a complaint filed by a third party, without verification, without consultation, without technical analysis, without a single formal request to my company asking for documents or proof of licenses, licenses that did in fact exist.
What they were looking for that day, according to them, was evidence of an alleged crime.
What they found was exactly the opposite: everything was in order, everything was organized, every server, every document and every technical authorization were available and ready to be verified.
So much so that, even with all the pressure, they could not arrest me, nor justify on site any of the reasons they had alleged in the complaint.
And even so, they shut down the data center.
They did not take the equipment that day.
They could not dismantle the operation as they apparently intended.
But they made a decision that, in practice, paralyzed our work.
They shut down the data center.
They did so even after finding documentation, contracts, licenses, technical records, CONATEL certifications and every element showing that our operation was neither clandestine nor improvised.
The order seemed aimed at completely dismantling the data center and taking the equipment.
But the documentary evidence was so extensive, and the legal and technical structure was so clearly presented, that they could not move forward that way without making the procedure even more scandalous.
So they did what they could do:
they closed the place.
And with that closure, they prevented us from entering, operating, performing maintenance, restarting services, fixing technical failures, attending to channels, checking servers or solving any operational problem.
A data center is not an ordinary room.
A data center requires technical access, monitoring, maintenance and response capability.
If access is blocked, the operation is blocked.
That day, they did not find a single concrete piece of evidence of the alleged offense that motivated the raid.
They found documents.
They found contracts.
They found licenses.
They found records.
They found certifications.
They found a real technical operation.
And even so, they shut it down.
Never, not the prosecutor, not the police, not the judge, consulted me before the raid:
“Does your company have licenses?”
“Can you show them?”
“Can you justify the origin of this technology?”
Nothing.
They simply executed the measure, shut down the place and left.
And all of this was based on an isolated complaint filed by a law firm linked to commercial interests in the audiovisual market, but without a single prior verification against my company, my international contracts or my person.
That raid marked a before and an after.
Not only because of the unnecessary violence,
nor because of the economic damage,
nor because of the public exposure,
but because it opened a process in which legality was pushed into the background,
and due process began to break down point by point.
This vlog does not seek to dramatize.
It seeks to make clear that the origin of this entire conflict was already marked by deep irregularities:
disproportionate procedure,
constant threat of arrest without cause,
armed entry into spaces where minors were present,
closure of the data center without prior technical expert examination,
execution based on assumptions and not on facts.
Today, years later, I am still here.
With serenity, with respect, with documents in hand.
And I continue telling my story, not to fight, but so that the truth remains recorded.
Because every person has the right to defend their honor.
And this space is part of that defense.
