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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2008 (ISSN 1741-4431)

PARAGUAY: Lugo under pressure to speed up land reform

The governmental rural development and land institute (Indert) released a report in early October stipulating that foreigners would no longer be able to acquire land in Paraguay. The announcement received little attention, with most of the domestic media concentrating on the violent clashes between the police and 150 rural protesters who had invaded an estate owned by a Brazilian soya farmer in the eastern department of Alto Paraná: one campesino was killed. The Indert announcement is significant, however, as it could be interpreted as the first tangible move by the government of President Fernando Lugo in its much-anticipated land reform.

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