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Board Politics & Society
Re: In Paraguay there was a robbery of the century.
by
Mometaskers
on 26/04/2017, 16:15:54 UTC
Wait, Paraguay have terrorists?! Never heard of that before. I thought it was the more northern countries that have terrorism problems from rebels and drug syndicates.

Most of the Latin American nations are effected by either left-wing or right-wing extremism, and Paraguay is no exception. You might have heard about the FARC and ELN of Colombia and the Shining Path of Peru. But the extremist groups in Paraguay are not that well known and are composed of only a few dozen lightly armed militants. The most well known group in Paraguay is the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo or the EPP. They are allied to the FARC of Colombia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_People%27s_Army_insurgency

Are those groups listed as terrorists or are they simply treated as rebels and secessionists? I'm not sure but I believe that would make a difference on how the country can deal with them. FARC I heard before in the news but have no idea what their political agenda is. Sigh, seems very few country don't have this problem. Even us still have Communist rebels.

Oh well, at least they don't have Islamists that love beheading like we do here in our country. Yeah I know, Communist and Islamist rebels, hard to make a choice which is the worse one.