• 3 May 2018 | Interviews | Free Honduras | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Social activists at risk

  

  Environmental activists analyze links between systems of oppression and the control and exploitation of peoples, territories and women

  Friends of the Earth International “has a clear vision of environmental and social justice”. “We can´t achieve justice in any way if we don´t talk and discuss about how women, gay people, black people and indigenous people are oppressed”, said Brazilian environmental activist Marília Gonçalves in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more

• 28 June 2017 | Photo Galleries | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Monitoring transnationals | Continental Day 2017 | Social activists at risk

  

  Continental Day for Democracy and against Neoliberalism meets in Montevideo, Uruguay

  The Montevideo Meeting will take place on November 16-18 in this Uruguayan city, in the framework of the Continental Day for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, which gathers since 2015 the most representative social forces of the Americas. The Meeting was launched on Tuesday in Montevideo. See gallery

• 11 October 2016 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Social activists at risk

  

  “We are a threat to the system”

  CONAMURI of Paraguay at the 31st National Women´s Meeting, Argentina

  Social activist Fátima González, of the National Coordination of Rural and Indigenous Women Organizations of Paraguay (CONAMURI) denounced in Rosario, Argentina, that there are women who are imprisoned in her country for resisting and representing a “threat against the ruling Dictatorship”. Read more

• 22 July 2016 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Paraguay: “Judges and prosecutors are the agents of big landowners”

  Former Supreme Court Justice Minister on the Curuguaty Case

  Lawyer Luis Lezcano Claude, former minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay, currently member of the technical defense of the peasants convicted in the Curuguaty case, said that the interest of both the Prosecutor and the Tribunal is to preserve private property as an inviolable absolute right, when legally it is not considered this way. Read more

• 21 July 2016 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Interview with Paraguayan journalist Carlos Goncálvez on the consequences of the sentence against Curuguaty peasants

  The consequences of the sentence against the Marina Kué peasants “are disastrous” and are based on “proven lies” by members of the Paraguayan judicial system, said Carlos Goncálvez, the person in charge of the alternative communication project Demoinfo.org in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more

• 14 July 2016 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Interview with Gustavo Noguera, lawyer of convicted Paraguayan peasants

  The corrupt Paraguayan judicial system, the de facto powers of landowners and communication media “have made up a story which has resulted in a conviction without investigating absolutely nothing”. The defense attorneys of the peasants were not allowed to summon witnesses and evidence pointing to the State´s role in the events was ignored. Read more

• 13 July 2016 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Brutal conviction in flawed trial against Paraguayan peasants over “Curuguaty Massacre” of 2012

  The conviction of eleven Paraguayan peasants to sentences between 4 and 30 years in prison after a criminal process filled with irregularities, recognized by the judicial actors themselves, will mark a turning point in the struggle for land in this South American country, said Diana Rivarola to Real World Radio. Diana is member of Articulación Curuguaty, created in 2012 to join the peasants of Marina Cué charged with the “Curuguaty Massacre”. Read more

• 22 June 2015 | Testimonies | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Three years after the Curuguaty massacre, Paraguay: testimony of Martina Paredes, sister of murdered peasants

  Last June 12 marked three years since the massacre of Paraguayan peasants who were occupying a piece of land in Marina kue, Curuguaty, and which resulted in the Coup d´Etat against Fernando Lugo´s administration, followed by the conservative restoration today led by President Horacio Cartes. Read more

• 4 March 2015 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  In a legal case filled with irregularities, leader Ruben Villalba is sentenced to 7 years in prison

  Paraguayan leader Ruben Villalba, who has been imprisoned pending trial for over 28 months accused of being one of the people responsible for the Curuguaty massacre that took place in June, 2012, was sentenced last Friday, February 13, to seven years in prison by the Salto del Guaira Court, for an action he carried out to avoid eviction from occupied lands in 2008. Read more

• 19 September 2014 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Interview with Ruben Villalba, a Paraguayan Peasant Unjustly Imprisoned

  “We are political prisoners, what they did and what they are doing to us is political persecution because nothing can justify our being in jail”, Ruben Villalba told Real World Radio. He and another 13 peasants were accused by prosecutor Jalil Rachid of the Curuguaty massacre on June 15, 2012. Read more

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