Paraguay – storms ahead
President Cartes has called for Brazilian investors to "use and abuse" the country so it is scarcely surprising that Paraguayan peasants, driven off their land by Brazilian farmers, are feeling angry.
Idalina Tatter – a powerful voice against transnational state terror
Paraguayan Idalina Tatter campaigned tirelessly, in search of her husband Federico Jorge Tatter, arrested in Argentina and rendered back to Paraguay by agents of Operación Condor. Her life and work is documented in the CAMeNA archive in Mexico
PARAGUAY: AGRIBUSINESS AND BIOTECH COMPANIES WIN OUT
The impeachment of President Lugo, rushed through Congress, was has clearly benefited big landowners and the powerful biotechnology companies. LAB reports.
Paraguay: The Impeachment of President Fernando Lugo
The President's downfall shows how hard it is to achieve change in a political system mired in the past.
PARAGUAY: GIRLS IN THE FOREST: UNLEASHING YOUNG GIRLS’ POTENTIAL.
LAB's Claudia Pompa reports on how the Centro Educativo Mbaracayu (CEM), located in the Mbaracayú Forest Biosphere Reserve in north-east Paraguay, educates and trains girls from rural communities to become 'rural and environmental entrepreneurs'.
Paraguay: Curuguaty paved the way for the multinationals
A leading rural workers' rights activist speaks out about the steady concentration of land and political power and the ethnocide of rural peoples.
Paraguay – the ‘poverty factory’
'Paraguayans are landless lodgers in their country, with no right to share in the country's production.' Fernando Martínez Escobar says that none of the candidates wanted to change the economic model that makes Paraguay a 'poverty factory'.
Paraguay: a bitter mother’s day for a 10-year-old who is pregnant
Herself weighing only 34 kilos, she is pregnant after being raped by her stepfather. The church, law and the government say she cannot have an abortion. Paraguay is divided.
Old guard with a new face
A former adviser to the two left-wing parties in Paraguay argues that the fact that Horacio Cartes was new to politics, coupled with the inadequacies of the left, allowed the Colorados to appear as the new kids on the block.
Migration & displacement – LAB Newsletter July 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
31 July 2019
Migration
and Displacement at crisis point
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page provides a daily stream of summaries...