The Associated Press -- ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Oct. 6 -- The government says it will enforce a long-standing law against foreigners buying agricultural land from Paraguayan citizens.
The government's land agency says enforcing the nation's Agrarian Reform may require some foreign owners to forfeit their farmland.
The announcement came Monday after a clash late last week between landless peasants and police that killed one man and injured three officers.
Police with a court order were trying to evict 150 peasants who had invaded a Brazilian-owned soy farm when gunfire broke out on Friday.
Enforcing land reform was a campaign promise of President Fernando Lugo. Just 1 percent of the population controls 77 percent of Paraguay's arable land.
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