The epepista leader Osvaldo Villalba would be one of the criminals killed this Sunday during a confrontation with the Joint Task Force (FTC).
The high authorities of the FTC confirmed that one of those killed in the confrontation this Sunday would be the important leader of the criminal group, Osvaldo Villalba Ayala, brother of Carmen Villalba secluded in the Good Shepherd.
Osvaldo Villalba is who would have led a group of indigenous people on July 9, 2019 that attacked a cattle ranch called Ñandu’i in the area of Ararokê, Amambay. There the natives burned trucks and agricultural machinery, they also killed the foreman Avelino Camargo, a Brazilian national. In that place they left a pamphlet with the description indigenous brigade against ranch thugs.
The other downed writer this Sunday would be Luciano Arguello, the fourth member of the Arguello Larrea family to die in the ranks of the EPP, if his identity is confirmed. With his brothers, at the beginning of 2017, he joined the ranks of the EPP, since before he was part of the exterminated group Agrupación Campesina Armada (ACA).
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Luciano, together with Rubén Darío López and others, were the ones who They kidnapped former Vice President Oscar Denis of his stay La Tranquerita in Yby Yau.
The other Arguello Larrea brothers, Jhony and Benicio, would have been killed by unknown persons and dumped on the way to Cerro Guazu on June 7, 2020, and Rodrigo Arguello died with Lucio Silva and Esteban Marin López on November 21, 2021, in another confrontation. with the FTC, all in the area of Cerro Guazu, the border between Amambay and Concepción.
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A wounded during the initial confrontation between some indigenous people and the epepistas, he was identified as Leonardo Gomez Riquelme, 42 years old, domiciled in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero. He suffered two bullet entry holes on the right side of the abdomen, without an exit hole. After being treated at the Santa Rosa Hospital, he was referred to the Trauma Hospital, Asunción.
The President of the Republic, Mario Abdo Benítez, traveled to the north to closely follow the work carried out by the soldiers.
