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Montevideo, April 20th 2024 - 04:58 UTC

Tag: Pedro Juan Caballero - Paraguay

  • Monday, January 20th 2020 - 08:37 UTC

    Massive escape from notorious Brazilian gang members from Paraguayan jail

    “It’s not possible that nobody saw anything in all this time,” Justice Minister Cecilia Pérez told the Telefuturo station. “This isn’t the work of one day or one night.”

    At least 75 inmates, many of them members of a notorious Brazilian gang, escaped from a Paraguayan prison in a border town on Sunday, according to authorities who said they immediately fired the prison’s director. Officials said they discovered a tunnel and found cells filled with as many as 200 bags of earth.

  • Saturday, March 7th 2015 - 08:04 UTC

    Journalism, a dangerous profession in northern Paraguay

    Gerardo Servian worked for a radio station in the neighboring Brazilian city of Ponta Pora when he was shot nine times on a street by unidentified gunmen

    A Paraguayan radio journalist has been shot to death in a Brazilian city bordering a crime-ridden area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms smuggling, officials said on Friday. Gerardo Servian worked for a local radio station near the city of Pedro Juan Caballero.