Taking of Encarnación

Taking of Encarnación
Taking of Encarnación
	Encarnación Posadas Asunción Villarrica Taking of Encarnación (Paraguay)
Date	February 20, 1931
Location	Encarnación, Paraguay
Goals	Social revolution Establishment of a commune in Encarnación; Creation of an anarcho-syndicalist society in Paraguay;
Methods	Occupation
Resulted in	Occupation failed Insurrectionists flee to Brazil;
Parties
Anarchists; Communists	Paraguay
Lead figures
	Obdulio Barthe; Félix Aracuyú; Facundo Duarte José Guggiari
Casualties
Arrested	17

The Taking of Encarnación was an attempted anarchist occupation of Encarnación, Paraguay, in February 1931 as part of a larger plan to initiate a social libertarian (anarchist) revolution in the country.