Insurgency in Paraguay

Insurgency in Paraguay
	; Area in Paraguay with insurgent activity.
Date	27 August 2005 – present; (18 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Northern Paraguay Amambay Department; Canindeyú Department; Concepción Department; San Pedro Department;
Status	Ongoing low-level conflict
Belligerents
Paraguay Armed forces; Police; Joint Task Force (FTC); Supported by:; United States; Colombia Justicieros de la Frontera	Paraguayan People's Army (EPP); Armed Peasant Association (ACA); Army of Marshal López (EML); (from 2016); Supported by:; FARC (until 2016); Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (alleged); Primeiro Comando da Capital; Comando Vermelho
Commanders and leaders
Santiago Peña (2023–present) ; Joe Biden (2021–present); Gustavo Petro (2022–present); Former commanders Nicanor Duarte ; Fernando Lugo ; Federico Franco ; Horacio Cartes ; Mario Abdo Benítez ; George W. Bush ; Barack Obama ; Donald Trump ; Álvaro Uribe ; Juan Manuel Santos ; Iván Duque ;	Alcides Oviedo Brítez (POW); Carmen Villabla (POW); Osmar Martínez †; Bernardo Bernal Maíz †; Osvaldo Villalba †; Albino Jara Larrea †; Alfredo Jara Larrea †; Idilio Morínigo †; Alejandro Ramos
Strength
3,500 active personnel	150–200; ~20; ~20
Casualties and losses
	145+ deaths and 46+ injured; 6,000 displaced

The insurgency in Paraguay, also known as the Paraguayan People's Army insurgency and the EPP rebellion (from the group's name in Spanish: Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo), is an ongoing low-level armed conflict in northeastern Paraguay. Between 2005 and the summer of 2014, the EPP campaign resulted in at least 50 deaths, the majority of them local ranchers, private security guards, and police officers, along with several insurgents. During that same period the group perpetrated 28 kidnappings for ransom and a total of 85 "violent acts".

The insurgency began in 2005, after several members of the Patria Libre party formed the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP). The Government of Paraguay suspects the EPP has ties to the Colombian rebel group FARC. Two splinter groups of the EPP, the Armed Peasant Association (ACA) and the Army of Marshal López (EML), have also launched separate armed campaigns against the government.

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