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Campesinos left without land
Gustavo Torres

Two percent of the owners hold 85 percent of the arable land.

Campesinos’ demand for land reform has a long history in Paraguay. Now indigenous organizations have joined their fight to recovery their ancestral lands by means of expropriation or purchases by the state.see more

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