Paraguay

Capital: Asuncion

Asuncion is also the largest city with about 680,250 people.

Share borders with Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.

Population of about 6 million people.

02 DEC 2012- A peasant land reform activist is assassinated in Paraguay by two gunmen. One fired a shotgun, the other fired a .38 revolver.

The U.S. sent military aid in 2005 in the form of U.S. Special Forces adivisors.

Dr. Luis Maria Argana International Airport in the town of Mariscal Estigarriba is strategically located between Brazil and Argentina. A large airport built in a small town in the 1980's by U.S. Technicians hired by the dictator of Paraguay at the time, Alfredo Stroessner. The airstrip is larger than the one in the capital, Asuncion. The population of the town is only about 2,000. When U.S. soldiers arrived in 2005, they landed at the Dr. Luis Maria Argana International Airport.

Apparently, the objective of the U.S. sending military advisors to train the military and police forces of Paraguay, was to help the government suppress a growing movement of landless farmers called the Paraguayan Campesino Movement.

Silvio Pettirosi International Airport (SGAS) in Asuncion.

About 23,000 total military personnel.

Much military weapons and equipment has been donated throughout the years by Brazil and Argentina.

Paraguay fought in the War of the Triple Alliance against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay from 1864-1870. Paraguay lost a sizable portion of its male population during the war.

Paraguay Air Force

Fuerza Aerea Paraguay (FAP)

About 1,100 personnel

EMB-312 Tucano trainer/light attack aircraft (3)

CASA C-212 transport aircraft (4)

De Haviland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter utility aircraft

UH-1 helicopters (9)

Helibras HB-350 Esquilo helicopters (3)

Small 3 dimensional ELTA radar used by the Air Force

Airborne Brigade

Navy

Armada Paraguaya

Approximately 3,600 personnel (includes 800 naval infantry)

Paraguay is landlocked, but has access to the Atlantic Ocean through the Paraguay River and the Parana River.

34 vessels plus 43 small patrol boats built in Paraguay.

Main naval base at Puerto Saxony in Asuncion

Other naval bases at Bahia, Negra, Ciudad del Este, Encamacion, Salto del Guarta, Ita-Peru

Gunboat (1)
C1

Patrol Ships (3)
P01

P04

P05

Patrol Boats (21)
Tzu Chiang Class (Taiwanese made)
P06

P07

Yhaguy Class (Taiwanese made)
P08
P09

P07 Class patrol boats
LP07
LP08
LP09
LP10
LP11

LP101 Class patrol boats
LP101
LP102
LP103
LP104
LP105
LP106
LP107
LP108

CROQ 15 Class patrol boats. Made by Armacraft of Australia.
LP-201