Joint Statement of Communist Parties: On the acts of torture and State terrorism in Paraguay

Since October 12, Francisca Andino, Carmen and Laura Villalba, Paraguayan political prisoners, were the object of a new attack by the penal system and the repressive forces of the Paraguayan State. 

In the early morning hours and without warning their lawyers or relatives, they were assaulted in their places of confinement (the Asunción women's prison in the case of the first two and the San Juan Bautista Regional Prison in the case of Laura V. .) by military agents without identification, hooded and with heavy caliber weapons, they took them to the new Minga Guazu Prison, in the department of Alto Paraná. 

Paraguayan Communist Party to hold its 9th Congress

In a statement addressed to the Parties and Movements Communists and Workers of the world, the International Relations Commission of the Paraguayan Communist Party (PCP) points out:

"With deep internationalist fervor, we inform that this June 12 and 13 we will be holding the 9th Congress of the Paraguayan Communist Party, under the slogan "Broad and deep unity for socialism."

KKE: Condemns the fascist attack on the Communist Party of Paraguay's headquarters in Asunción

In a message of solidarity towards the Communist Party of Paraguay (Partido Comunista Paraguayo), the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece states the following:

"The KKE decisively condemns the attack by a group of fascsist against the headquarters of the Communist Party of Paraguay in Asunción, the desecration of the offices' entrance with vulgar anticommunist slogals and the destruction of a mural dedicated to the October Revolution.