Security & Strategic Review - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

The guerrillas of the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) have resurfaced after the appointment of Federico Franco as successor to Fernando Lugo (2008-2012) in the presidency with two minor raids (in one of which a life was claimed) and a series of communiqués in which they call for ‘struggle’ against the new government and promise to avenge the peasants killed last June in Curuguaty. While dismissing the official version of that event as a fabrication, the EPP avoids any mention of its purported direct or indirect involvement in that incident.