Paraguay battles over land rights in the courts and across the airwaves

As soya companies appropriate land in Paraguay, many small-scale campesino farmers are forced out to cities. For those who stay to fight for their land, the conflict can turn bloody

For 14 years, Juan Aveiro broadcast Radio Mandu'ari to a cluster of communities in a remote corner of eastern Paraguay. He and his team of volunteer journalists worked from a makeshift studio painted with a mural depicting Paraguayan farmers, or campesinos, with their fists in the air, beneath a banner proclaiming "peace and justice!"

Then, in November, police raided Mandu'ari's studio. "They took everything," Aveiro says.