Evan Abramson

Reportage: A Hunger for Land

Carumbey I, Lima district, San Pedro—October 25, 2008—Landless farmers maintain camp 24 hours a day at the edge of a 7,000 acre property that borders their community, and which was acquired illegally during former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year reign as president. The farmers hope for the property to be investigated and its ownership to be declared illegal by INDERT, the national land reform institute of Paraguay, in order for it to be returned to the government and subsequently gifted to the farmers themselves.
Carumbey I, Lima district, San Pedro—October 25, 2008—Landless farmers maintain camp 24 hours a day at the edge of a 7,000 acre property that borders their community, and which was acquired illegally during former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year reign as president. The farmers hope for the property to be investigated and its ownership to be declared illegal by INDERT, the national land reform institute of Paraguay, in order for it to be returned to the government and subsequently gifted to the farmers themselves.