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Weekly Report - 11 August 2016 (WR-16-31)
PARAGUAY: New kidnapping prompts military shake-up
Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes has relieved General Martín Cáceres from his position as head of the military-police task force (FTC) charged with combating the self-proclaimed Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) insurgent armed group in the north of the country. The move came in response to the presumed abduction by the EPP of a teenager from the Río Verde Mennonite colony in the northern department of San Pedro. Franz Wiebe Boschman is the second Mennonite to have been taken by the EPP in northern Paraguay in the past 12 months, once again prompting serious questions about how effective the FTC has been in hunting down members of the group, and increasing pressure on the Cartes administration.
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