Tag: peasant farmers

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 23:25 UTC

  Paraguayan Senate prepares to oust President Lugo on Friday appealing to an impeachment process

  

  The Paraguayan Senate has summoned President Fernando Lugo for Friday midday to commence the political impeachment process which was voted almost unanimously in the Lower House (76 to 1) and will decide on his future.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 16:35 UTC

  Urgent meeting of Unasur leaders to address the Paraguayan situation

  

  Unasur presidents attending the Rio+20 summit met urgently on Thursday to analyze the current political situation in Paraguay where President Fernando Lugo is facing political impeachment following a land eviction incident that killed 17 peasants and policemen.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 15:56 UTC

  Paraguayan president faces impeachment following 17 killings in land eviction incident

  

  Paraguay's opposition-controlled lower house of Congress voted today to start impeachment proceedings against President Fernando Lugo following a land eviction in which 17 police and peasant farmers were killed last week.

• 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.