Paraguay

• Monday, August 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay set to double farm output in “next few years”

  Paraguay Mercosur junior member and one of the poorest countries in South America (per capita income 4.500 US dollars) has gained more from world soaring food prices in terms of the boost to its trade balance than any other nation in the region.

• Wednesday, August 20th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay: you won, but the presidential chair belongs to me

  

  Paraguay's new government of president Fernando Lugo claims the outgoing administration of Nicanor Duarte committed all sort of irregularities adding to millions of dollars before abandoning office, including the theft of the presidential chair.

• Tuesday, August 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguayan Indian minister for indigenous affairs

  

  An indigenous woman in Paraguay who says she was sold into forced labour as a girl has been made minister for indigenous affairs.

• Sunday, August 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  New Paraguay president Lugo meets with poor

  

  Paraguay's new leftist president returned Saturday to the province where he spent 11 years as bishop, and pledged to raise living standards by eradicating poverty and corruption in one of South America's poorest nations.

• Friday, August 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay's Lugo promises to end corruption and misery

  

  Former bishop Fernando Lugo was inaugurated Friday as Paraguay's president, ending six decades of one-party rule. Tens of thousands of Paraguayans cheered as the tie less, sandal-clad Lugo raised his hand in the air and was sworn in, addressing the crowd in both Spanish and the Guarani indigenous language from a huge stage in front of Congress.

• Wednesday, August 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay's new government, a test for Taiwan diplomacy

  Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou begins this week his first overseas visit to three Latinamerican countries some of the very few left in the world that still recognise the Republic of China (Taipei).

• Wednesday, August 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay's 300.000 landless families wait for new president

  

  Land distribution promises to become the main immediate challenge for Paraguay's elected president Fernando Lugo who takes office on Friday. An estimated 300.000 peasant families are expecting to be given a lot of land and their organizations are impatient.

• Monday, August 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay: The next leftist of the block

  

  Next August 15 a major event will be taking place in one of South America's poorest and most forgotten countries: Paraguay.
  
  Bishop Fernando Lugo will be taking the presidential oath, but even more significant the Partido Colorado which has had a hegemonic domination of the country's politics for the last six decades has accepted defeat and will take refuge in the elected Congress and whatever remnants of power it has in the bureaucracy.

• Friday, August 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay, “a devastated country”, says elected president

  

  Paraguay's elected president former bishop Fernando Lugo said he receives a “devastated country with no institutions”, and claimed there is a plan to destabilize his administration which takes office next August 15.

• Tuesday, August 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Land reform single major issue for next Paraguayan leader

  Land reform stands out as the single biggest issue for Paraguay, a landlocked country of just under 7 million people, where one percent of the population controls 77% of the arable fields.