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Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)
PARAGUAY POLITICS & ECONOMICS: Protests by cooperatives and farmers produce social tensions
A protest campaign launched this month by Paraguay’s cooperative sector in rejection of a government initiative to extend the 10% value added tax (VAT) to its services, has been producing social tensions in the country after peasant farmer organisations and other civil-society groups decided to adhere to the campaign in order to press the government for their own demands. The protests have already produced some violent clashes in the capital, Asunción, putting the government led by President Horacio Cartes under pressure to resolve the conflict.
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