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In 2020, 75 inmates escaped from a prison in the eastern city of Pedro Juan Caballero.

Journalist Humberto Coronel was shot in front of the radio station where he worked in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay, the region's police chief, Ruben Paredes said, less than three months after Coronel said he and his colleague had received death threats.

Located on Paraguay's border with Brazil, Pedro Juan Caballero is considered the most violent city in a country that has become an attractive operation base for Brazilian gangs, including the Sao Paulo-based PCC and Rio de Janeiro's Red Command.

The latest violent incident in the region linked to the PCC came in October, with four people killed by dozens of shots in the Paraguayan city of Pedro Juan Caballero.

On 26 June, an 11-year-old girl gave birth by caesarean section after being rushed from her home in the north-eastern city of Pedro Juan Caballero to a hospital in the city of Itauguá.