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On Sunday night, October 22, 2023, Arnaldo Benítez Vargas, one of the spiritual leaders (tekoaruvicha) of Yvy Pyte, suffered an attack by people linked to the conflict of invasion of their ancestral territories and the advance of systematic genocide against the Paĩ Tavyterã Peoples in Paraguay.

The leaders of Yvy Pyte have been denouncing a series of violent acts and abuses in their territories before the corresponding judicial and governmental bodies, seeking a definitive solution to the conflict, since the lives of the members of the community are at risk. 

Yvy Pyte, 11 de octubre de 2023

Comunicamos a la opinión pública nacional e internacional los graves hechos que ponen en riesgo nuestras vidas y nuestros territorios ancestrales que personas ajenas a nuestra comunidad vienen realizando e instamos a las autoridades competentes a tomar las medidas urgentes que correspondan para el resguardo de nuestros derechos como pueblo indígena.  

On Sunday, October 23, 2022, Paĩ Tavyterã Guaraní Indigenous leaders Alcides Romero Morilla and Rodrigo Gómez González were assassinated during a confrontation between security forces from the Paraguayan state and the EPP (Paraguayan People's Army), a non-state armed group. Other people from the community were also injured, including Leonardo Gómez Riquelme, who is still being hospitalized.

On January 20, 2016, Paraguay’s human rights record was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the second cycle of the  Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. This mechanism emerged from the 2005 UN reform process and periodically examines the human rights performance of all 193 UN Member States. It is intended to complement the work of other human rights mechanisms, including the UN human rights treaty bodies.

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