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Paraguayan Documentary Narrates Massacre In Curuguaty

  • The farmers demanded the liberation of their three colleagues in June 2013 after the massacre of Curuguaty, while no policemen have faced any charges so far. (Photo: EFE)

    The farmers demanded the liberation of their three colleagues in June 2013 after the massacre of Curuguaty, while no policemen have faced any charges so far. (Photo: EFE) | Photo: EFE

Published 15 September 2014
Opinion

The confrontation caused 17 victims (11 farmers and 6 policemen) and the parliamentary coup against left-winged President Fernando Lugo in June 15, 2012. 

The documentary "Out of the Field", directed by Hugo Gimenez, was exhibited this Monday in the Theater of the Port, in the Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, according to a statement released by NGO Oxfam. It will also be broadcasted in the Paraguayan public TV channel.

“Fuera de Campo” or "Out of the Field" is a 52-minute narration of the massacre that followed the eviction of farmers who were claiming the ownership of a state land, managed by a livestock farmer and member of the Colorado Party (opposition), in the name of the agrarian reform, after claiming it for decades in courts.

One week after the tragedy, the oppostion-controlled-parliament took the opportunity to force progressive Fernando Lugo to resign, which caused the suspension of diplomatic and economic relationships of Paraguay with its Latin American neighbors.

“Returning to the place of a recent massacre in the Paraguayan countryside. A journey between the images, where the pain and absence feel heavy; because an image never carries the totality of its significance,” the director of the film state. The documentary includes interviews with the relatives of the victims.

As the conflict over the land of Curuguaty has not yet resulted in a satisfactory solution for the farmers, the NGO Oxfam has been leading an international campaign called “Youth without land = Land without future,” demanding the conservative President Horacio Cartes to allocate the 2,000-hectare land to the 260 young people claiming it in Curuguaty.

The petition was signed by over 30,000 people from all over the world, according to the NGO. 

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