In this section, Real World Radio will follow the political and human rights situation in Paraguay with reference to the risk of institutional destabilization brought by the impeachment against Constitutional President, Fernando Lugo.
21 May 2014 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay
A violent eviction took place today, May 20th, in Guajayvi, San Pedro department, Paraguay, by public security forces, armed civilians and thugs hired by Brazilian soy producers. The action was carried out against 150 families established in the 15 de junio campsite for the past 8 years. Read more
6 May 2014 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Social activists at risk
Last April 25, leaders Mariano Ayala, Roque Insfrán Martínez, Antonio Duarte Legal and Daniel Pérez Gómez were imprisoned after being accused of home invasion, in Presidente Hayes department, Paraguay. Through a press release, the National Coordination of Peasant Organizations (MCNOC) denounced these imprisonments and demanded their release, in addition to the release of Milciades Atiensa, who was arrested last weekend in Alta Vera disctrict, Itapua department. Read more
25 March 2014 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Social activists at risk
The deep dissatisfaction with the current Paraguayan administration is one of the main reasons that a wide range of urban and rural social organizations and movements from the entire country are calling for a general strike on Wednesday, March 26. Read more
14 March 2014 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing
A few weeks after the Curuguaty massacre where 11 peasants and 6 police officers were killed, the peasants arrested and charged for these events decided to go on a hunger strike. The peasants who were blamed for the murders (of their own friends and relatives) adopted the measure to demand that the pregnant women who were arrested were given house arrest and that Judge José Dolores Benitez and Public Attorney Jalil Rachid were removed from the case due to “breach of public duties and manifest partiality”. Read more
12 March 2013 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
On Sunday night Paraguayan peasants Cipriano Flores and Asuncion Acuña were shot by gun men. Both of them live in the landless settlement India Juliana, in Ararupi, Caazapa department. Read more
25 February 2013 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Another peasant leader was killed on Wednesday 20 February, exactly two months before the country’s elections after a coup d’état that ousted President Fernando Lugo. Read more
28 January 2013 | Videos | Summit of the Peoples - Santiago de Chile | Financialization of nature | Free Honduras | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay
Colombian activist, Lyda Forero, of the Transnational Institute summarized some of the most important outcomes of the plenary sessions of the Summit of the Peoples and its final declaration. Watch video
19 December 2012 | News | Foundational Assembly of ALBA Social Movements | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay
The Foundational Assembly of the Articulation of Social Movements Towards ALBA will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil from January 18 to 23. Its organizers are saying it will be a broad and representative meeting of all the social movements that have contributed in different countries of the region, to the bottom-up continental integration project by resisting neoliberalism and imperialism. Read more
3 December 2012 | News | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
On Saturday early morning two masked persons murdered Paraguayan peasant leader Vidal Vega, member of the Landless Peasant Commission that fights to obtain the Marina Cue plot of land in Canindeyu department, 35 km from Curuguaty where 11 landless peasants were killed on June 15th. The incident was dubbed as the Curuguaty massacre. Read more
30 November 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing
The leader of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) Rafael Alegria, who has received death threats by businessmen and rural estate owners, talked about the 20 years of the organization. Read more
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