Tag: Curuguaty

• Monday, December 17th 2012 - 20:48 UTC

  Deadly clash trial that cost the president his job begins in Paraguay

  

  Prosecutors in Paraguay have filed charges against 14 peasants allegedly involved in a land dispute which resulted in the killing of 17 people last June, six months ago. The charges range from murder to criminal association and land invasion.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 05:08 UTC

  Human rights commission demands urgent investigation into killing of Paraguayan peasant leader

  

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the murder in Paraguay of human rights defender Vidal Vega, leader of the Campesinos sin Tierra movement (Landless Campesinos) and president of the Committee of Relatives of Victims of the Curuguaty Massacre and urges the State of Paraguay to investigate and clear up these crimes, and punish those who perpetrated and masterminded them.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 02:53 UTC

  Paraguay landless peasants-police shootout kills 18; Army moves into the area

  

  Paraguay sent the Army after at least 18 people were killed and over eighty wounded, many of them seriously, on Friday in armed clashes that erupted when police tried to evict landless peasant farmers squatting a privately-owned farm in Paraguay, officials said.