Hostage’s family delivers food to Paraguayan EPP guerrillas seeking exchange
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Reimer, 24, was kidnapped in the town of Santa Rosa del Aguaray, in the department of San Pedro, along with three other people who were released a few hours later. To release the last hostage, the guerrillas demanded the distribution of food in 20 communities within a week.
The family said that this was too short a time, but managed to complete their request in the early hours of the morning, delivering the last two trucks to the Chacarita area. This last delivery consisted of 380 batches of food marked with the EPP symbol.
The guerrillas are also allegedly holding ex-vice president Óscar Denis, kidnapped in September 2020 and of whom there has been little news, although the family also tried in vain to comply with the armed group’s requests. His daughters have repeatedly accused the government of Mario Abdo Benítez of not being sufficiently involved in solving the case.
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