ASUNCION, Paraguay – Brazil has extradited a Paraguayan former mayor to face trial for his alleged role in the slaying of a journalist and the reporter’s aide last year.
Paraguayan prosecutors accuse Vilmar Acosta of ordering the Oct. 16, 2014, killing of journalist Pablo Medina and Antonia Almada in a crime-ridden northern region that is a hotbed for drug and arms smuggling.
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Medina worked for the newspaper ABC Color and focused on investigations exposing corruption and drug trafficking.
The 40-year-old Acosta was elected mayor of a northern town in 2010 as a member of the now-governing Colorado party.
He was arrested in March in the Brazilian city of Campo Grande. Acosta arrived in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion on Tuesday.
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