Paraguay

• Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:05 UTC

  Milei stays silent on Lula’s victory as Kast and Peña congratulate him

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei had not congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his re-election in Brazil by Monday, unlike other right-wing South American leaders such as Chile’s José Antonio Kast, Paraguay’s Santiago Peña and Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz. Milei, who publicly backed Senator Flávio Bolsonaro during the campaign, met his cabinet at the Casa Rosada first thing in the morning.

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• Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 19:14 UTC

  Paraguay’s president travels to Washington and will meet the CIA director

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña travelled to Washington on Wednesday for a brief visit that includes a meeting with US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe and a keynote address at the annual gala of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank.

• Sunday, October 18th 2026 - 17:51 UTC

  Pressure mounts on Paraguay’s Central Bank over doubts about some lenders’ solvency

  

  The Association of Banks of Paraguay, which groups 14 private lenders, on Sunday asked the Central Bank of Paraguay to report on the solvency of institutions that received facilities in merger processes, days after senators from the ruling party and the opposition called on President Santiago Peña to remove the institution’s leadership.

• Monday, October 12th 2026 - 22:09 UTC

  Iguazú Falls closed as the river’s flow tops 12,000 cubic metres per second

  

  Iguazú National Park, in Argentina’s Misiones province, closed access to the falls’ walkways on Monday because of an exceptional rise in the Iguazú River, whose flow exceeded 12,000 cubic metres per second. The flood is part of an episode of heavy rainfall linked to El Niño that has also caused the Uruguay River to burst its banks, with evacuations on both sides.

• Monday, October 5th 2026 - 22:09 UTC

  Paraguay's opposition takes Asunción from the Colorado Party and holds Ciudad del Este

  

  Paraguay's opposition won the mayoralty of Asunción and held that of Ciudad del Este, the country's two most populous cities, in Sunday's municipal elections, according to preliminary results from the electoral authority. The ruling Colorado Party, however, won the vast majority of districts.

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

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

  

  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.

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

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

  

  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

  

  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 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

  

  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.