Paraguayan senate declares state of emergency in northern departments after...
[Translation of an article from TeleSUR for April 22.] At the request of President Fernando Lugo, the Paraguayan senate on Thursday approved declaration of a state of emergency in five departments in...
View ArticleParaguayan President Fernando Lugo says there will be no human rights abuses...
[Translation of an article from TeleSUR for April 26 concerning the state of emergency the senate recently delared, at the president’s request, for part of the country. The object of the measure is to...
View ArticleParaguay: Violent confrontation between police and campesinos during eviction
[Translations of two articles from the Venezuelan website TeleSur for June 15 and 18. See originals here and here.] At least 17 killed during eviction of campesinos At least 17 dead, ten of them...
View ArticleParaguay: Landowners want to bring down the Lugo administration
[Translation of an article from the Brazilian website Carta Maior for June 20. See original here and related article here.] by Dario Pignotti “This killing of campesinos occurred as a result of a...
View ArticleParaguay, another Honduras?
[Translation of an article from El Clarín of Santiago, Chile, for June 25. See original here and related articles here and here.] by Guillermo Almeyra The conspiracy against the Paraguayan president,...
View ArticleParaguay: Overthrow of Lugo, a U.S. political maneuver
On the same day, legislators were negotiating for a new military base [Translation of an article from La Jornada of Mexico City for July 1. See original here and related articles here and here.] by...
View ArticleParaguay: Franco government fires military officers over meeting with...
New president accuses Venezuela of trying to stage a military coup to keep Lugo in power [Translation of an article from Opera Mundi of São Paulo, Brazil, for July 13. See original here and related...
View ArticleParaguay: Lugo declares that Paraguayan Left is more united than ever
[Translation of an article from Brasil de Fato for August 3. See original here and related articles here, here and here.] by Tadeu Breda “The parliamentary coup changed my life completely,” former...
View ArticleParaguay: A conversation with Aníbal Carrillo, Frente Guasú presidential...
[Translation of an article from Punto Final of Santiago, Chile, for March 8, 2013. See original here and related articles here, here , here and here.] by Claudia Korol Elections will be held in...
View ArticleParaguay: Federico Franco, golpista
[Translation of an op-ed from the website of Radio La Nueva República of Mexico for April 7, 2013. See original here.] By Atilio A. Boron Paraguay’s rotten luck. A country of such noble people...
View ArticleParaguay: A millionaire, a winner, a president and… a drug dealer?
[Translation of an article from El Clarín of Santiago, Chile, for April 26, 2013. See original here and related articles here, here and here.] By Jorge Saenz The life of Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara...
View ArticleThe same old Paraguay
[Translation of an article from Carta Maior of Brazil for April 30, 2013. See original here and related article here.] By Eric Nepomuceno Fernando Lugo, removed by force from the Paraguayan presidency...
View ArticleParaguay: President Cartes can now use armed forces against any threat
Militarization is now the law [Translation of an article from Página/12 of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for August 23, 2013. See original here and related article here.] By Diego Brom Paraguayan President...
View ArticleTwo years after Curuguaty massacre, Paraguayan campesinos denounce persecution
Leaders claim landless workers are prevented from even growing food for their families [Translation of an article from Opera Mundi of São Paulo for June 16, 2014. See original here and go here for more...
View ArticleCuruguaty, Paraguay: The parliamentary coup and the jailing of the poor
The Curuguaty massacre was a perfect political maneuver: it removed President Fernando Lugo, who had brought up the agrarian question for the first time in decades [Translation of an article from Carta...
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