Armed violence of the "EPP" in the north of Paraguay from dissident voices and uncovered faces

Abstract

The acts of violence registered in northern Paraguay since 2008, attributed to an alleged guerrilla organization known as the "Army of the Paraguayan People", which is identified with the acronym "EPP", have been reported in a hegemonic way from the perspective of from the official version amplified by the mainstream media. In more than a decade of armed violence, there have been some episodes that have configured the appearance of crises that made possible the irruption in the public debate of voices that were marginalized in all these years from the official account and from the reflections of conservative and progressive analysts, even of certain referents of Human Rights organizations. Those dissident voices, of peasant and indigenous inhabitants of the Paraguayan north, distance themselves from the violence of the “EPP”. They do it without hiding in anonymity, with an open face. All this calls into question the assertions that ensure the existence of the population's involvement with the “insurgent group” and the supposed silence that is called upon to avoid reprisals from a “guerrilla” that it actually rejects, which also makes it unfeasible the political support that every insurgency requires to achieve its objectives.