• 10 September 2012 | Interviews | Human Rights and International Solidarity Mission | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Infinite Sadness

  Five Months After Curuguaty Massacre: Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Delicate State

  Nearly 50 days ago several peasants arrested during the Curuguaty massacre, who were imprisoned in Coronel Oviedo, in Caaguazu department, began a hunger strike. Two of them, Felipe Nery Urbina and Juan Carlos Tilleria, are in delicate health condition. It has been five months since the killing of 11 landless peasants and six police officers. Read more

• 6 September 2012 | News | Human Rights and International Solidarity Mission | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Painful

  New Mission of Solidarity with Paraguay After Coup

  Several Paraguayan social organizations inaugurated on Wednesday a “Human Rights and International Solidarity Mission” in Asuncion, Paraguay, that will aim to learned about the ‘Caraguaty massacre’ occurred on June 15, when 17 people died in police repression against peasants peasants. The participants of the mission will meet with the families of the victims. Read more

• 6 September 2012 | News | Human Rights and International Solidarity Mission | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Social activists at risk

  

  The Land of Soy and Impunity

  Magui Balbuena of Conamuri-Paraguay Describes the Massacre of Curuguaty

  The Human Rights and International Solidarity Mission with Paraguay is in Curuguaty, where a massacre against peasants took place in June that lead to president Fernando Lugo’s ousting. Read more

• 23 August 2012 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Ethical Trial

  Social Trial Against Parliament that Staged Coup in Paraguay

  Two months after Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo was ousted, the new government is clearly defending vested interests: releasing new genetically modified crops, new mining projects by transnational corporations, repression in the countryside through eviction of peasants and persecution of community radios. Read more

• 13 August 2012 | Community Radios | Free Honduras | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Social activists at risk

  

  A Step Backward

  United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Expression: There Are Links Between Coups in Honduras and Paraguay

  The United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Frank La Rue, visited Honduras and said the situation in the country and the ousting of Fernando Lugo in Paraguay are examples of a step backward in terms of the right to freedom of expression in Latin America. Read more

• 1 August 2012 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Another Mercosur

  Analysis of Venezuela’s Entering to Mercosur by Argentinean Sociologist Atilio Boron

  Since July 31, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela became the fifth full member of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) together with Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and the now suspended Paraguay. This could have historical repercussions for the region. Read more

• 31 July 2012 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  State Neglect

  Interview with Vidal Acevedo (Servicio Paz y Justicia – Paraguay)

  After the Coup d’état that took place in Paraguay, Human Rights organizations have been broken up or captured by actors linked to the regime led by Federico Franco. In addition, the installation of a US military base in Chaco is likely. Read more

• 24 July 2012 | Videos | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Coup Against Change

  João Pedro Stédile (MST-ALBA Social Movements) Analyzes the Causes and Consequences of the Coup d’État in Paraguay

  The coup d'État in Paraguay that ousted President Fernando Lugo last June 22, benefits the land owners and the transnational corporations that operate in the country and “it was actually not only a coup against the Paraguayan people but a coup against the whole process of progressive change that is taking place in Latin America and against the re-colonization of the United States”, said João Pedro Stédile, leader of the National Coordination of the Rural Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in a video interview done by La Via Campesina in Brazil. Watch video

• 10 July 2012 | News | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Mission: Solidarity

  CLOC-Via Campesina in Paraguay

  Besides the international boycott of Paraguay's illegitimate administration of former vicepresident Federico Franco, several organizations and social groups are holding solidarity missions in the country, where there is a permanent demand to reinstate Fernando Lugo as its legitimate president. Read more

• 2 July 2012 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay

  

  Intellectual Property

  Fernando Lugo: “Three years ago, Honduras became a laboratory for this, and now it is being perfected in Paraguay”

  "The democratic process was broken. An impeachment took place without any reason, this was a Parliamentary coup. There are several names for it: an "express coup’; Cristina Kirchner talked about a "soft coup". Three years ago, Honduras became a laboratory for this, and now it is being perfected in Paraguay”, said the ousted Paraguayan President. Read more

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