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Weekly Report - 9 October 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
PARAGUAY: Conflict over land reform heats up
One person died in a violent clash 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 on 3 October. Days later President Fernando
Lugo met leaders of campesino organisations in Asunción to try and defuse
mounting tension. He secured a partial truce of no more land invasions in
exchange for his promise to accelerate land reform plans. The finance minister,
Dionisio Borda, has also been holding frantic meetings with business groups to
try and gain support for a government initiative to tax soya.
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