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Weekly Report - 1 March 2012 (WR-12-09)

PARAGUAY: Land conflict takes strange turn

When the government of President Fernando Lugo promised to provide land for the landless farmers known as carperos in the east of Paraguay who had occupied a rural estate [WR-12-08], few expected that land to be within the confines of a national park. And yet, that is precisely what happened on 26 February when several thousand carperos consented to being moved by the national police to Ñacunday national park. The cabinet chief, Miguel López Perito, insisted that the move was only temporary and that the park would suffer no damage, but environmentalists were up in arms. The whole episode exposes the inability of the Lugo administration, faced with a hostile and conservative congress, to enact the land reform it has promised.

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