The landowners do not question the right of landless peasants to a plot of land.
That changed on June 15, when police clashed with landless peasants in eastern Paraguay, resulting in 17 deaths.
Discontent with Stronismo, as Paraguayans called it, was shared by groups as diverse as landless peasants and poorly-paid doctors.
This problem of landless peasants is likely to grow as more land is set aside for urban and industrial development.
Lugo has long "flirted" with groups of landless peasants who are prone to violence, culminating in the recent clash, Acha said.
The central issue behind the impeachment trial was a June 15 incident in which police clashed with landless peasants, resulting in 17 deaths.
Like residents of the slums of third-world cities, many are landless peasants, a group now estimated at 70 million or 80 million.
The numbers of poor, landless peasants would soar, creating huge instability.
Mr Mugabe has had 20 years in which to carry out land reform, yet many of the white-owned farms secured for redistribution have gone not to landless peasants but to government officials and the president's cronies.
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The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor peasants and landless workers.
Mr Lugo's numerous political foes got their long-sought chance to oust him on June 15th, when 11 peasants and six policemen were killed during the eviction of a group of landless protesters from a forest reserve near the Brazilian border.
It fears that creating a free market in rural land would prompt peasants to sell their holdings to pay their debts, sending an avalanche of landless farmers to cities that have no social-security infrastructure to deal with them.
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