Paraguay

• Wednesday, January 30th 2013 - 06:48 UTC

  Paraguay suspended from Mercosur has requested Pacific Alliance observer status

  

  Paraguay has formally requested to become an observer of the Alliance of the Pacific, revealed Foreign minister Jose Felix Fernandez Estigarribia, The Pacific group is made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile, and actively promotes foreign investment and the private sector.

• Saturday, January 26th 2013 - 20:44 UTC

  Mercosur/Paraguay controversy reaches EU/CELAC summit in Chile

  

  Chile confirmed that Paraguay finally decided not to attend the EU/CELAC summit in Chile putting an end to a controversy when it emerged that several Mercosur and Unasur members insisted that the landlocked country should not be invited.

• Friday, January 25th 2013 - 04:38 UTC

  Dengue kills 16 in Paraguay where 13.000 cases have been reported

  

  Paraguay’s health authorities have reported that sixteen people have died of dengue disease since the beginning of the year, ten directly infected and the other six as a consequence of other complications.

• Saturday, January 19th 2013 - 04:30 UTC

  Tourists arriving in Uruguay dropped 14% in first weeks compared to 2012

  

  The number of tourists arriving to Uruguay in the first weeks of this summer season has dropped 14% compared to the same period a year ago, which represents 20.600 less, mostly Argentines and Brazilians, according to Benjamin Liberoff, Director of Tourism.

• Thursday, January 17th 2013 - 16:49 UTC

  Uruguay poised to grow 4% this year; Argentina and Brazil, 3.4%, says World Bank

  

  Uruguay’s economy is poised to grow 4% this year and in 2014, which is above the region’s average, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects issued this week. However Uruguay will be ranked twelfth in the growth ranking of Latinamerica this year but ahead of Brazil and Argentina with 3.4%.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2013 - 18:19 UTC

  Paraguay admits defeat to dengue and declares national epidemics alert

  

  The mosquito transmitted dengue disease can’t be eradicated, but only controlled at least this tropical summer admitted Paraguayan health officials after extending the national epidemics alert to the whole territory of the landlocked country.

• Saturday, December 29th 2012 - 06:44 UTC

  Venezuela praises Mercosur partners but completely ignores Paraguay

  

  Venezuela gave another step in its integration process as full member of Mercosur underlining recent achievements with its partners Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay but completely ignored Paraguay, the fourth full member currently suspended from the block.

• Thursday, December 27th 2012 - 05:31 UTC

  Unasur observers will attend Paraguay election scheduled for next April

  

  Representatives from Unasur confirmed that they will be present to follow the April 2013 general elections in Paraguay, reported the spokesperson for the country’s Superior Electoral Justice Tribunal, TSJE.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2012 - 06:27 UTC

  Dengue alert in Paraguay; SMS awareness campaign to fight mosquitoes

  

  Paraguay’s Health Ministry announced it will appeal to SMS messages as part of the awareness campaign to help prevent the mosquito transmitted dengue disease which this year has already caused 70 deaths and thousands of infections.

• Monday, December 17th 2012 - 20:48 UTC

  Deadly clash trial that cost the president his job begins in Paraguay

  

  Prosecutors in Paraguay have filed charges against 14 peasants allegedly involved in a land dispute which resulted in the killing of 17 people last June, six months ago. The charges range from murder to criminal association and land invasion.