Paraguay

• Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Chavez claims five Paraguayan lawmakers are impeding Venezuelan access to Mercosur

  

  President Hugo Chavez claimed that a small group of Paraguayan lawmakers, manipulated by a “powerful black hand”, are impeding the long-delayed access of Venezuela as full member of Mercosur.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 05:39 UTC

  Lugo complains restrictions on market access and in energy integration

  

  Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo called for the free flow and free access of his country’s goods to Mercosur senior members’ markets and insisted on the energy integration of the block.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 19:28 UTC

  Mercosur summit suspended following suicide of a top Argentine official

  

  The Mercosur presidential summit in Montevideo has been temporarily suspended following the news that a member of the Argentine delegation had committed suicide which left delegation members in a state of shock.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 02:58 UTC

  Paraguayan Congress warns Lugo on Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur

  

  The president of the Paraguayan congress Senator Jorge Oviedo Matto said that Paraguay should withdraw from Mercosur if the block during its Tuesday summit in Montevideo agrees the incorporation of Venezuela “eluding the approval of the Legislative as indicates the Constitution and the Mercosur charter”.

• Monday, December 19th 2011 - 07:29 UTC

  Mercosur summit to deal with Venezuela inclusion and obstacles to trade

  

  A two day Mercosur summit begins Monday in Montevideo with Foreign Affairs ministers meeting Monday and the presidents on Tuesday when the rotating chair will be passed from Uruguay to Argentina for the next six month.

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 20:39 UTC

  OIE puts Paraguay in FMD list; Brazil reopens market to mature boneless beef

  

  The World Animal Health Organization, OIE, dependent from FAO, informed Paraguay that its territory had lost the condition of free of foot and mouth disease with vaccine, following an outbreak of the disease reported September 18.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 20:01 UTC

  Paraguay’s November inflation index negative helped by a glut of beef

  

  Paraguay experienced negative inflation during the month of November influenced by the fall in meat prices, mainly beef, because of a ban on exports, which more than compensated an increase in fuel costs.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 18:58 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay less corrupt in Latam; other Mercosur members not so clean

  

  Chile and Uruguay are the least corrupt countries in Latinamerica, while Paraguay and Venezuela are at the other extreme, according to the latest ‘Corruption Perceptions’ Index’ from Transparency International released this week.

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:20 UTC

  Mercosur to share intelligence and coordinate regionally organized crime combat

  

  Combating the drugs and arms trade and traffic of people as well as a greater coordination of regional intelligence services are among the pillars in security affairs that Argentina, as chair of Mercosur in the first half of 2012 will be applying.

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:18 UTC

  Strong process of land concentration and in foreign hands in Latam says FAO

  

  A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, in seventeen Latinamerican and Caribbean countries discovered an intense concentration and foreign-held land process.