January 22, 2009 (LPAC) –-On orders from President Fernando Lugo, combined forces of Paraguay’s National Police, Army, and other law-enforcement agencies are doing a sweep of the northern states of San Pedro and Concepcion, severely hindering normally extensive drug cartel operations, while tracking down the murky drug cartel-linked “Popular People’s Army” (EPP). On Dec. 31, the EPP appeared out of nowhere to attack a military outpost in the region, fraudulently claiming to defend the local peasantry.
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