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How Students Turned the Tables on Corruption in Paraguay

By Brendan O'Boyle

Student protests have shaken up the country’s university system and are challenging business as usual.

Add Paraguay to the growing list of Latin American countries where citizen protests are successfully holding public officials accountable for alleged abuses of power. In the past month, a student-led response to revelations of corruption within Paraguay's largest university has landed the institution's highest official behind bars and disrupted the status quo in a country considered one of the region's most corrupt....

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