Dictatorial regime and ill-gotten lands in Paraguay A review of state policies for reparation of rural property rights
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During the government of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay (1954-1989) there was a complex process of forced exile of political opponents and the appropriation of their lands. Within the framework of the fraudulent application of an Agrarian Reform, more than seven million hectares in different regions of the country were awarded irregularly to various personalities, such as senior Paraguayan and foreign officials, military, police, businessmen and landowners related to the government. However, with the return of democracy in 1989, successive land policies did not return the properties to their legitimate owners returned from exile, nor did they manage to advance substantively in a redistribution of lots, plunging into illegality their extended population base of poor peasants and small family producers.
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