Paraguay

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 02:53 UTC

  Paraguay landless peasants-police shootout kills 18; Army moves into the area

  

  Paraguay sent the Army after at least 18 people were killed and over eighty wounded, many of them seriously, on Friday in armed clashes that erupted when police tried to evict landless peasant farmers squatting a privately-owned farm in Paraguay, officials said.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2012 - 23:27 UTC

  Paraguayan president and former bishop admits fathering a second child

  

  Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo admitted on Tuesday fathering a second child when he was a Roman Catholic bishop, in an apparent effort to limit damage from the latest paternity scandal to emerge during his four-year-old presidency.

• Friday, June 1st 2012 - 06:52 UTC

  Paraguayan president returns after a two-week controversial tour of Asia

  

  Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo returns home this week after a two-week” tour of Asia where he went in search of new markets for Paraguay’s two largest exports, beef and soy.

• Monday, May 28th 2012 - 01:01 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil celebrate naming of Iguazú Falls as one of New7Wonders

  

  A huge orchestra comprising 700 children from seven Latin American countries, plus China and South Korea, played music from the soundtrack of “The Mission” as the Iguazú Falls shared by Argentina and Brazil were officially inaugurated one of the New7Wonders of Nature.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 21:37 UTC

  Paraguay proposes India long-term plan to exchange food for investments and technology

  

  Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo currently visiting India proposed an exchange of food for investment and technology. Lugo was received by President Pratibha Patil and later by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 07:01 UTC

  Three former presidents admit Mercosur has failed and has Uruguay ‘trapped’

  

  Three former Uruguayan presidents recommended the current administration that without abandoning Mercosur, it should look at major trade blocks associations but at the same time a strong self criticism is needed because maybe the problem is not in Mercosur but in Uruguay.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 05:56 UTC

  UK company begins hydrocarbons prospecting in the Paraguayan Chaco

  

  Amerisur Resources Plc, the oil and gas producer and explorer announced on Monday it has received a Prospecting Permit by Paraguay’s Ministry of Public Works and Communications for the Espartillar block in the Paraguayan Chaco.

• Monday, May 21st 2012 - 06:39 UTC

  Taiwan demands from Latam allies “fair, legal and effective” cooperation relation

  

  Taiwan will continue to cooperate with Latin America as long as the relation is fair, legal and effective, said re-elected president Ma Ying Jeou who also described that links with Beijing will continue to be: “no unification, no independence and no arms”.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2012 - 22:19 UTC

  Paraguay’s beef exports picking up after two outbreaks of FMD

  

  Paraguay’s meat exports totalled 285 million dollars in the first four months of the year, which makes it the second best four-months for the industry in recent years, said German Ruiz, head of the country’s Rural Association.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 20:56 UTC

  Mercosur “going through its worst moment in history” claims Uruguay

  

  Uruguay’s Vice-president Danilo Astori said Mercosur is going through its worst moment in history because some of its members in practical terms “are denying the most basic principles”.