Paraguay

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 20:18 UTC

  Political deal in Paraguay to vote for Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur

  

  Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur as full member seems closer as the Paraguayan Senate readies to consider the issue following on political agreements worked out by President Fernando Lugo.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 05:35 UTC

  Paraguay summons US ambassador: who wasn’t spied or followed?

  

  Paraguay's Foreign Minister, Héctor Lacognata, summoned US Ambassador in Asunción Liliana Ayalde to express the concerns raised among the Paraguayan government after Wikileaks reported that US diplomats have been conducting numerous espionage activities within the country.

• Friday, November 19th 2010 - 04:50 UTC

  Museum suspends expedition to meet uncontacted tribes in the Paraguayan Chaco

  

  London's Natural History Museum has suspended a planned expedition to a remote region of Paraguay after protests that it might disturb one of the world's last uncontacted tribes.

• Friday, November 5th 2010 - 03:25 UTC

  Paraguay could have the world’s largest titanium reserve

  

  The US explorer who discovered the world’s biggest copper deposit in Chile has staked a claim in Paraguay to what he says may be the largest titanium find, according to a report from Bloomberg.

• Thursday, October 7th 2010 - 04:50 UTC

  Paraguay president back in office amid growing concerns about his full capacities

  

  Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, who has cancer returned home to resume his duties on Wednesday after undergoing emergency treatment in a Brazilian hospital over the weekend. He has a full cabinet meeting planned for Thursday.

• Monday, October 4th 2010 - 00:36 UTC

  Paraguayan president allegedly “recovering”, back in office next Wednesday

  

  Paraguay's cancer-stricken president Fernando Lugo is “lucid, ”perfectly fine” and will not require surgery at this point, his doctor said Sunday. The president is currently undergoing treatment at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in San Paolo, Brazil.

• Saturday, October 2nd 2010 - 05:55 UTC

  Rio Tinto/Alcan confirm interest in building aluminium industry in Paraguay

  

  Rio Tinto Alcan presented the Paraguayan government a project for the construction of an industrial park which is to complement the aluminium plant it is planning to start in the land-locked Mercosur member country.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 04:51 UTC

  Argentina ignores Paraguay; builds new canal to pump water from shared river

  

  Landlocked and Mercosur member Paraguay will formally complain to its peer Argentina the non consulted and unilateral decision to build a canal adjacent to a shared river that acts as a natural border and provides both sides’ agriculture and ecosystems with a vital water supply.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 03:43 UTC

  Paraguayan president health condition causes unrest among lawmakers

  

  Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo undergoing treatment for a lymphatic cancer is limiting activities to “administrative affairs” while a growing number of opposition lawmakers are seriously considering requesting his resignation or a larger share of responsibilities with his Vice-President Federico Franco.

• Friday, September 10th 2010 - 03:15 UTC

  Paraguay’s tourism revenue in 2009 totalled 204 million US dollars

  

  Foreign tourists left an estimated 204 million US dollars in land-locked Paraguay in 2009, according to figures made public by the head of the Tourism Office Liz Cramer, during a seminar held this week at the Central Bank.