LatinNews Daily - 18 February 2015

Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes has ordered troop reinforcements in the northern departments of Concepción and San Pedro, in the wake of a late-January raid by the guerrillas of the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) which claimed the lives of two hostages and prompted strong criticism of the ability of the joint military-police task force (FTC) to defeat the insurgents.

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