MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Cartes on a two-day visit to Pacific Alliance member Chile to promote trade and investments
Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes begins on Monday a two-day visit to Chile where he is scheduled to meet his peer Sebastián Piñera and hold a round of talks with business people inviting them to invest in Paraguay. At the end of the month Cartes will be flying to Brasilia to meet President Dilma Rousseff. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCartes is doing a good job of restoring Paraguay´s relations with South America and building bridges between Mercosur, Alba and Pacific Alliance.
Sep 16th, 2013 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chile has already granted a free storage area for the goods from and in transit to Paraguay as part of the efforts to increase the U$ 700 million trade in the Pacific zone. Good move.
Sep 16th, 2013 - 10:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 02@ agreed, those are great news :-)
Sep 17th, 2013 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Next move should be a new high capacity railway from Paraguay straight to the Chilean Pacific ports.
Sep 18th, 2013 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 04 The Chilean perspective (#)
Sep 18th, 2013 - 01:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Right, so they can transport their marihuana by rail instead of dropping it from the sky on their Atlantic side neighbours.
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Sep 18th, 2013 - 05:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0You've got the brains of a rocking horse. If the Brazilians build a good railway to Paraguay and we build one from there to Chile, the northern Pacific ports and local economies are going to hit overdrive and the beneficiaries will be all the people, business and governments. There's no downside. Plus you wont have to wait for good weather to get air drops of your favourite skunk or green dragon.
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