insurrección

Paraguay´s outgoing administration is being questioned because they are not following the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights which established that by mid July the government should return lands and compensate the members of an indigenous community who inhabit the country. In 2005, the Court set up a deadline of three years in which Paraguay should identify the ancestral lands of the Yakye Axa indigenous community, and return their lands without demanding any economic compensation. These lands are currently known as “Estancia La Verde” and appear as the property of cattle company Loma Verde Sociedad Anónima. The company´s legal representative is Senator Julio Osvaldo Domínguez, from the same party that the current Executive.

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