Paraguay

• Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Mercosur FMs pledge to deepen regional integration amid global trade challenges

  

  Foreign Ministers of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)—namely Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—gathered Friday in Buenos Aires at the San Martín Palace to advance regional integration amid global trade changes. They focused on eliminating intra-zone trade barriers, strengthening regional value chains, harmonizing regulations, and enhancing physical and digital integration.

• Thursday, May 1st 2025 - 09:41 UTC

  Paraguayan President to attend new Pope's enthronement

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña, who prioritized other international engagements over Pope Francis' funeral, will be attending the enthronement of the Argentine pontiff's successor, Senator Derlis Maidana confirmed Wednesday. Peña, currently on a US tour until May 5, 2025, took heavy flak for his absence at the memorial of the first-ever South American head of the Catholic Church.

• Wednesday, April 30th 2025 - 10:22 UTC

  Peña tells UN global institutions need reforming

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña addressed the UN General Assembly, criticizing the world's ineffectiveness in maintaining peace amid conflicts and calling for reform to global institutions to better support developing nations.

• Monday, April 28th 2025 - 10:48 UTC

  Paraguayan experts visit Brazilian floating solar power plant to apply that technology to Itaipú

  

  Paraguayan technicians from Itaipu's Renewable Energy Consultancy visited a 7-megawatt floating solar power plant at the Billings dam reservoir in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest of its kind in Latin America, spanning 5 hectares to learn about flotation and anchoring systems, as part of the preparations for a similar project, albeit smaller, undertaking at Itaipú.

• Monday, April 28th 2025 - 10:26 UTC

  Senator wants Paraguay to revert to winter time (GMT -4)

  

  Paraguayan Senator Blanca Ovelar plans to introduce a bill to revert the country's time zone to GMT-4 year-round from the current permanent summer time (GMT-3) adopted recently.

• Saturday, April 26th 2025 - 10:44 UTC

  Paraguayan Congressman wants Air Force cleared to shoot down threatening aircraft

  

  Paraguayan Congressman Rubén Rubín submitted a bill to Parliament whereby the Air Force could shoot down any aircraft posing a threat to national security. The proposal seeks to expand Law No. 6980/2022 on airspace protection, adding a “Phase III” to existing protocols, which would allow shooting down hostile aircraft as a last resort.

• Wednesday, April 23rd 2025 - 10:40 UTC

  Paraguayan health authorities tackle tuberculosis, HIV and other diseases

  

  Paraguay’s Health Ministry and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have launched a joint technical mission to strengthen the country’s response to HIV and tuberculosis, focusing on eliminating HIV, mother-to-child transmission of HIV, congenital syphilis, hepatitis B, and Chagas disease, as well as managing advanced HIV, TB, and HIV/TB co-infection.

• Wednesday, April 23rd 2025 - 10:35 UTC

  Paraguay hopes to build 22 small hydroelectric plants through private investment

  

  Paraguay plans to build 22 small hydroelectric power plants on internal rivers, with an estimated private investment of US$ 1.4 billion, explained Vice Minister of Mines and Energy Mauricio Bejarano in a radio interview after the enactment of the Small Hydroelectric Power Plants Law which grants the government free rein to bid for the construction of new dams.

• Tuesday, April 22nd 2025 - 10:34 UTC

  Paraguay: Lugo appears at event commemorating his presidential election

  

  Former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo publicly appeared Sunday in Liberación, San Pedro, at a Frente Guasu event commemorating the 2008 opposition victory that ended decades of National Republican Association (ANR) rule.

• Monday, April 21st 2025 - 10:35 UTC

  Stolen 16th-century manuscript returned to Paraguayan authorities

  

  The US justice system returned the so-called “Hernandarias Manuscript,” a 16th-century document penned in 1598 by Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the first Creole governor in the Americas.