Juan Carlos Da Costa

Juan Carlos Da Costa (1944—1976) was a Paraguayan writer, politician, activist, and leader of the clandestine Political Military Organization (OPM), created in the mid 1970s against Alfredo Stroessner's military dictatorship. He died fighting the police on 5 April 1976.

Painful Easter

His killing was followed by violent repression known as the Painful Easter in which the Stroessner dictatorship arrested and tortured approximately 1,500 peasants and 200 students, many of whom were killed in prison, between April and June of 1976.