Survivors of a Massacre in Paraguay Looking for Justice, Five Years Later
Survivors of a Massacre in Paraguay Looking for Justice, Five Years Later
A 2012 shooting of landless campesinos and police – and its flawed investigation – continues to trouble Paraguay with its political and social repercussions.
Marina Cué, a lightly-wooded parcel of land amid stunted fields of soybean in the district of Curuguaty, eastern Paraguay, seems like an oasis of calm today. But the casings from high-calibre rounds that locals still find in the grass tell a different story: that of a forced eviction here involving 300 heavily-armed police and a few dozen campesinos on June 15th, 2012, that ended in a hail of bullets, leaving 11 landless farmers and 6 police dead.
“I lost two...
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