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Weekly Report - 06 February 2014 (WR-14-05)

PARAGUAY: Tensions running high in countryside

In recent weeks there has been a resurgence of violence in central Paraguay’s impoverished rural area, with a series of clashes between large landowners and peasant farmers. The resurfacing of tensions in the area is highly worrisome given that the deadly June 2012 clash between landless farmers and the police in the district of Curuguaty, Canindeyú department, was the catalyst for the impeachment that year of then-president Fernando Lugo (2008-2012), an event that plunged Paraguay into a deep political crisis.

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