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Security & Strategic Review October 2009 (ISSN 1741-4202)
PARAGUAY: The slow realization that the EPP guerrillas exist
A high-profile kidnapping has finally
persuaded the Paraguayan authorities that the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo
(EPP) does indeed exist as a politically motivated armed organisation, rather
than just a 'front' for criminal gangs. This comes after a combined army-police
sweep through the northern departments of San Pedro, Concepción and Amambay,
which failed to result in the arrest of any EPP members. The public prosecution
service has moved from initial scepticism to the conviction that it was the EPP
that had connections with the Colombian Farc guerrillas, and has filed charges
against a Farc leader it believes trained EPP members in the techniques of
kidnapping for ransom.
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