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Weekly Report - 26 July 2005
PARAGUAY: 'Moonie' protest reveals why land reform is blocked
A protest over unfulfilled land distribution demands, which captured headlines mainly because the landowner involved is a firm owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, has brought to the fore an issue which Paraguay's politicians, within and without the government, have been studiously avoiding: that despite the rhetoric, land distribution cannot proceed because no funds have been budgeted for that purpose.
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