Weekly Report - 27 January 2004

PARAGUAY: Killings by police trigger peasant protests

Southern Cone 24 April 2007 Modified: 27 January 2004 269 views

The government of President Nicanor Duarte is trying to defuse a wave of protests by peasant organisations triggered last week by the killing of two peasants and injuring of eight others by police — protests that are already being morphed into a campaign against Duarte's agricultural policy.

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