Paraguay battles over land rights in the courts and across the airwaves | Global development | The Guardian
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Carlos Goncalvez, director of the media pressure group DemInfo, explains why community radio stations are being targeted (pdf).
“Cartes wants to shackle organisations that fight for the rural poor,” he says. “Community radios give marginalised rural citizens a voice. They inform them about their rights and the struggle for agrarian reform.”
This struggle centres on land ownership: according to a 2008 farming census, 80% of Paraguay is controlled by 1.6% of the population. A third of the rural population live in extreme poverty (pdf).