MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2024, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[Paraguay confirms 3 outbreaks of bird flu; could be more]]> Martin said migratory birds flying through the region could have been vectors of the disease According to Paraguay's National Animal Health and Quality Service (Senacsa) President Dr. José Carlos Martin, there were already three confirmed outbreaks of avian influenza in the South American country's Chaco region by Sunday, while two others were still under investigation.

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Mon, 22 May 2023 09:04:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Paraguayan guerrillas free abducted teenager after ransom is paid]]> Franz, who turned 18 while in captivity, is shown in an EPP video A Mennonite teenager, Franz Weiber who was abducted last July by Paraguayan Marxist inspired guerrillas in the north of the country was released on Saturday, safe and sound, after the family and friends collected the equivalent of US$ 25.000 in food to distribute among fourteen Indian communities in the area.

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Sun, 26 Feb 2017 13:50:00 GMT
<![CDATA[UK company confirms discovery of oil in the Paraguayan Chaco]]> “Whilst we are most satisfied with this discovery, President is now focused on drilling down to the original target which still lies in front of us”, said Levine President Energy announced on Monday it has discovered good oil-bearing zones at its Lapacho drill in the Paraguayan Chaco and confirms strong hydrocarbon pay at its Jacaranda well.

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Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:24:00 GMT
<![CDATA[British company spuds exploratory well in Paraguay's Chaco]]> Jacarandá expects drilling to target a depth of 4.200 meters London AIM listed President Energy PLC, has spudded what it calls the first deep exploration well in the Paraguayan part of the Chaco basin in almost 30 years.

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Tue, 17 Jun 2014 06:49:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Second indigenous teenager in a week murdered in the north east of Argentina]]> Chaco Lieutenant-Governor Bacileff Ivanoff argues there is “no ethnic question” in the province Argentine police are investigating a second murder of a member of the Qom indigenous community in less than a week, after a 16-year old died in a Formosa hospital on Thursday after suffering for four days.

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:19:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Indigenous 12-year old beaten to death in north-east Argentina]]> Governor Jorge Capitanich: “our solidarity with the family and the whole qom community” The death by beating of a 12 year old indigenous Qom child in the north of Argentina had shocked public opinion following on another incident less than a month ago when a gendarme run over an indigenous grandmother and a ten month old baby girl.

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Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:41:00 GMT
<![CDATA[President Franco says Paraguay will begin pumping oil in mid-2013]]> The oil basin is close to Argentina and President Franco will be visiting the area next week Paraguayan president Federico Franco announced on Monday that starting on 2013 the country will become an oil producing nation, after a recent discovery close to the border with Argentina.

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Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:47:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Paraguay begins drilling for oil in the Chaco next December]]> President Franco was briefed on the coming operations Paraguay will begin exploring for hydrocarbons in the Chaco region, heartland of South America next 8 December, said oil consultant Mario Garnero after meeting on Tuesday with President Federico Franco.

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Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:13:00 GMT