A review by COAPY and Somos Anticorrupción Py names 21 ANR leaders: six final convictions, five appealable sentences and 10 cases without a final conviction. The list classifies Erico Galeano’s conviction as final while noting a pending constitutional challenge.
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Paraguay’s Senate postponed until next week a vote on a bill changing the Agrarian Statute and Indert rules, as Indigenous and peasant organizations protest possible sales of public land to people who are not eligible beneficiaries, land concentration and reduced funding for agrarian reform.
Thousands of farmers and Indigenous people marched in Asunción to demand land reform and housing, while the National Institute for Rural and Land Development (Indert) acknowledges having titled only 5% of lands acquired over 122 years and requests more resources to expand land regularization.
The former president of the Institute of Rural and Land Development (Indert) has been sentenced to seven years in prison for breach of trust in an irregular land sale that caused a loss of 15.38 billion guaranis to the state, and had previously received another conviction for producing false documents.
Judge Carlos Mendoza Peña began enforcement of the confiscation of assets belonging to former Indert president Justo Pastor Cárdenas Nunes, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for illicit enrichment and money laundering. The order provides for measures affecting a number of assets and their registration in Senabico’s name, subject to required notifications.
The Indert issued property titles to families in Marina Cué, 14 years after the Curuguaty massacre, completing the titling of 100% of the 243 lots in the colony through peaceful agreements and mediation.
President Santiago Peña has proposed a bill to eliminate the 3% upfront payment for rural land titling in Paraguay, making it easier for thousands of farming families to obtain property titles and extending payment terms to up to 20 years for men and 30 years for women.
Indert transferred a three-hectare plot of land to the Ñeembucú Governorship for the construction of a recreational complex in Pilar, with an investment of US$5 million.