Global InformationInsurgency in Paraguay information
| Insurgency in Paraguay | |||||||
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 Area in Paraguay with insurgent activity. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Supported by: Justicieros de la Frontera[2] |
 Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) Armed Peasant Association (ACA)[a] Army of Marshal López (EML)(from 2016)[3] Supported by:  FARC (until 2016)[6] Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (alleged)[7]Primeiro Comando da Capital[8] Comando Vermelho[9] | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Former commanders
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Alcides Oviedo Brítez (POW) Carmen Villabla (POW) Osmar Martínez † Bernardo Bernal Maíz †[10] Osvaldo Villalba †[11] Albino Jara Larrea †[7][12] Alfredo Jara Larrea †[7][12] Idilio Morínigo †[13] Alejandro Ramos[14] | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3,500 active personnel |
150–200 ~20[15] ~20 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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145+ deaths and 46+ injured[28] 6,000 displaced [29] | |||||||
 | This article needs to be updated. (January 2024) |
The insurgency in Paraguay, also known as the Paraguayan People's Army insurgency and the EPP rebellion (from the group's name in Spanish: Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo), is an ongoing low-level armed conflict in northeastern Paraguay. Between 2005 and the summer of 2014, the EPP campaign resulted in at least 50 deaths, the majority of them local ranchers, private security guards, and police officers, along with several insurgents. During that same period the group perpetrated 28 kidnappings for ransom and a total of 85 "violent acts".[16]
The insurgency began in 2005, after several members of the Patria Libre party formed the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP). The Government of Paraguay suspects the EPP has ties to the Colombian rebel group FARC.[30][31] Two splinter groups of the EPP, the Armed Peasant Association (ACA) and the Army of Marshal López (EML), have also launched separate armed campaigns against the government.
- ^ a b "Estados Unidos y Colombia ofrecen ayuda al Gobierno contra el EPP". Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "Hermanos Argüello Larrea desaparecen en Arroyito". Ultima Hora (in Spanish). 24 July 2017. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Por inacción del Gobierno, surge un nuevo grupo armado llamado EML". abc (in Spanish). 4 March 2017. Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ "Libro de novedades del EML revela que la gavilla ACA fue refundada". abc (in Spanish). 31 July 2018. Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ "Grupo criminal se jacta de tener el apoyo de la población de Arroyito". abc (in Spanish). 1 August 2018. Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
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- ^ "Comando Vermelho iba a ejecutar el plan de rescate disenado por el EPP". www.abc.com.py. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
- ^ "A head and a soldier killed in fall EPP Step Tuyá". Archived from the original on 2017-09-27. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
- ^ "Paraguay rebel leader Villalba killed in clash with army". BBC News. 24 October 2022.
- ^ a b "Sospechosos de integrar EPP o ACA fueron detenidos en Ypané". Ultima Hora (in Spanish). 20 March 2017. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Paraguay: cayó en combate uno de los presuntos dirigentes de la Agrupación Campesina Armada". Resumen (in Spanish). 19 May 2016. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "Aparece una nueva banda: Ejército del Mariscal López" (in Spanish). Ultima Hora. 4 March 2017. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- ^ "Combatant Estimate". 4 June 2013. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
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- ^ "Continúa la práctica de desalojos forzosos". baseis.org.py. 23 November 2022.
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