Paraguayan opposition leader Efrain Alegre can trace some of the fire for his 2023 presidential run to three weeks he spent behind bars two years ago on what he says were trumped up corruption charges related to campaign financing.
The 60-year-old veteran politician and lawyer, who was narrowly defeated at the ballot box in 2018 - his third attempt at the presidency - is pushing hard to unseat the ruling conservative Colorado Party in Sunday's vote. Some opinion polls have shown him ahead.
