Abstract
Paraguay's land distribution remains among the most unequal on earth and social injustices are striking. Impoverished sin tierra and Indigenous peoples have found themselves caught between the structural inequalities of Paraguayan society and the self-serving agro-businesses of Brazilian and (ethnic German) Mennonite settlers. In the last two decades, radical left-wing groups (EPP), animated by the ideological syncretism among nationalism, Indigenism, Marxism-Leninism and the Liberation Theology, have initiated a guerrilla warfare. They have proved links to the Colombian FARC, and Chilean FPMR, and have been accused of narcoterrorism, based on an alleged network of collaboration with Brazilian cartels. Paraguay's political landscape remains chaotic. The blog piece tries to unveil such convoluted situation where Indigenist struggles, Marxist guerrilla, drug trafficking, interethnic tensions, and geopolitics intermingle.