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Montevideo, August 31st 2026 - 19:57 UTC

Paraguay

  • Friday, August 28th 2026 - 19:35 UTC

    The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay

    For Brazil, the largest beef supplier to the US market, the measure removes for three months the out-of-quota duty of 26.4% it has paid since mid-January

    US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 26 temporarily waiving tariffs on imports of up to 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings, a measure that excludes countries already holding their own quotas in the US market, among them Argentina and Uruguay. The main beneficiaries will be Brazil and Paraguay.

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  • Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:20 UTC

    Peña says the Milei-Lula crisis has not affected how Mercosur functions

    Peña said Lula and Milei now hold “irreconcilable differences,” though he argued both understand that the relationship between their countries is greater than the relationship between them.

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña said on Friday that the differences between his Argentine and Brazilian counterparts, Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have had no consequences for Mercosur, despite the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

  • Thursday, July 30th 2026 - 01:40 UTC

    Lula says Paraguay chose to invade Brazil; Paraguayan Congress accuses him of distorting history

    Lula said Brazil likes peace but cannot forget that Paraguay one day decided to invade Brazil, adding that it later did the same to Argentina and Uruguay

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva invoked the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) to defend increased defense spending, in remarks that drew formal rejection this week from both chambers of Paraguay's Congress.

  • Friday, July 24th 2026 - 06:48 UTC

    Family of murdered journalist urges Paraguay to comply with Inter-American Court ruling

    The family also said it had proposed holding the official act of acknowledgment of responsibility at the site of the killing, a proposal that was not accepted

    The widow and children of Paraguayan journalist Santiago Leguizamón, murdered in 1991, have called on the state to fully comply with the ruling in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found Paraguay responsible for failing to properly investigate the crime. The demand was voiced on Monday at a ceremony beside the monument honoring the broadcaster in Pedro Juan Caballero, on the border with Brazil, convened by the family, the Paraguayan Journalists' Union, and the Human Rights Coordinating Body, with backing from the International Federation of Journalists.

  • Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 05:03 UTC

    Argentina's polar spell eases as Patagonia faces rain, snow and 90 km/h gusts

    Between the start and middle of the week, the instability extends toward the Chubut mountain range and parts of Río Negro and Neuquén

    The intense polar air mass that affected much of Argentina during the first days of July has begun to ease, with a gradual rise in temperatures across the center and north of the country, while Patagonia now concentrates the most severe weather. The National Meteorological Service (SMN) has kept warnings in place for rain, snow and strong winds in the far south.

  • Monday, July 6th 2026 - 20:35 UTC

    French football federation to file complaint over Paraguayan senator's racist attack on Mbappé

    In the messages, Amarilla used dehumanizing comparisons and disparaging references to the African heritage of the player, who was born in France and is of Cameroonian and Algerian descent

    The French Football Federation (FFF) announced on Monday that it will file a complaint with prosecutors over racist posts by Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla directed at France captain Kylian Mbappé, and called for judicial proceedings to be opened.

  • Wednesday, July 1st 2026 - 08:28 UTC

    Mercosur leaders push for a regional security architecture against organized crime

    The security debate unfolded alongside the trade tensions that dominated the summit

    The fight against transnational organized crime emerged as one of the central themes of Mercosur's 68th summit of heads of state, held on Tuesday in the Paraguayan city of Luque, where several leaders called for building a regional security “architecture” with concrete goals and deadlines. The issue ran through the addresses of the bloc's presidents and those of its associated states, at a summit where Paraguay handed over the pro tempore presidency to Uruguay.

  • Wednesday, July 1st 2026 - 08:26 UTC

    Uruguay takes over the Mercosur presidency vowing to modernize and open the bloc

    Orsi described the closing semester as “historic” for the signing of the pact with the EU, which he called a “turning point” for economic integration and investment

    Uruguay's President Yamandú Orsi on Tuesday assumed the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur and set as a priority of his term to “keep modernizing” the bloc and consolidate its trade opening, following the provisional entry into force of the agreement with the European Union. “We want a more modern, more dynamic Mercosur, more open to the world, but above all a Mercosur that produces concrete results for its citizens,” he said as he received the rotating presidency from host Santiago Peña of Paraguay, at the 68th summit of heads of state held in Luque.

  • Tuesday, June 30th 2026 - 22:22 UTC

    Mercosur turns to Asia with Japan talks as the EU quota split stays unresolved

    Mercosur on Tuesday announced the start of trade negotiations with Japan and reaffirmed its intention to diversify alliances toward Asia during its biannual summit in Asunción, where Paraguay handed over the bloc's pro tempore presidency to Uruguay. The meeting, however, closed without an agreement on the internal distribution of export quotas under the treaty with the European Union, and again exposed the differences between Argentina and Brazil over the bloc's direction.

  • Tuesday, June 30th 2026 - 08:33 UTC

    Paraguay declares a holiday after reaching the World Cup's last 16 by beating Germany

    The decree states that Paraguay “has shown the world” its resilience and that the government “cannot remain indifferent to this achievement”

    Paraguay's President Santiago Peña declared a national holiday for Tuesday, June 30, to celebrate the national team's qualification for the round of 16 at the 2026 World Cup, after eliminating Germany in a penalty shootout. “Today a whole country is celebrating,” the president wrote on the social network X, where he published the decree and congratulated the team, which he called by its nickname, the Albirroja.

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