Blow Riquelme

Blas Nicolás Riquelme Centurión (born February 3, 1929 in Lambaré , † September 2, 2012 in Asunción ) was a Paraguayan landowner , politician and entrepreneur .

Life

Blas Riquelme was the son of Higinia Centurión and Víctor Bernardino Riquelme (* 1896 in Asunción ; † 1976). His grandfather Marcos Riquelme founded the Partido Colorado with Bernardino Caballero . He had two brothers and four sisters. His father's wife died at the age of seven and the family settled in Lambaré.

In 1975, under Alfredo Stroessner , Campos Morombí SAC y Agropecuaria , a company owned by Blas N. Riquelme, received latifundia in the Curuguaty district , in the Canindeyú department .

In 1985 Riquelme near Itakyrý, Departamento Alto Paraná had over 100 Mbyá evacuated from their 75,000 hectare estate from their settlement near Paso Romero .

Riquelme became vice-president under Andrés Rodríguez , his Cervecería Asuncion SA , the Grupo Riquelme has been brewing according to the Purity Law since 1978 , while the Stroessner clan was supported by the Cervecería Paraguaya SA (CERVEPAR) Pilsen and Bremen beer brewers. Riquelme was a supporter and supporter of Lino Oviedo until 1996 . From 1990 to 1994 he was chairman of the Partido Colorado (Paraguay) . Since 2002 he was chairman of the Coloradismo Democratico . Riquelme served as chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and served two terms as senator.

Blas Riquelme died on September 2, 2012 in Asunción as a result of a stroke .

Fight of the landless in 2012

In June 2012 the bodies of two farmers were discovered in a violent evacuation operation aimed at landless farmers on a piece of land owned by former Senator Blas Riquelme. At least nine landless people and six police officers were killed during the subsequent actions. The political crisis after the massacre led to the replacement of the previous Interior Minister of Paraguay. His successor, the former Attorney General Rubén Candia Amarilla , has suspected the illegal group “Paraguayan People's Army” (EPP) of inciting or even armed the landless .

Individual notes

1. ^ Víctor Bernardino Riquelme
2. ^ Hugo Ruiz Olazar in ABC Color , November 22nd, 2007, “Participé más como joven cabezudo que como político”
3. ↑ Die Zeit June 16, 2006, squatters die in combat with the police verdad y justicia ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 1.7 MB) 
4. ↑ Erick Detlef Langer, Elena Muñoz, Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America p. 119
5. ↑ Jan Päßler: Blas N. Riquelme succumbed to a serious illness ( memento of the original from December 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , wochenblatt.cc of September 2, 2012 (accessed on September 12, 2012). 
6. ↑ Exchange of fire with landless people in Paraguay in FAZ from June 18, 2012, page 6