Paraguay

• Thursday, May 31st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Soy boom brings wealth, at a price

  

  Few towns in Paraguay's impoverished countryside have a stoplight, well-paved roads or a library. This remote farming community has all three, and residents cite one reason: soybeans.

• Sunday, May 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay: former bishop leads presidential opinion polls

  

  A former Catholic bishop and pre-candidate from the Paraguayan opposition Fernando Lugo, is leading public opinion polls for presidential elections of April 2008 according to the Sunday edition of Asunción daily Ultima Hora.

• Friday, March 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguayan president praises Chavez, lashes out at Bush

  

  Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte lashed out at his US counterpart George W. Bush for failing to contribute to development in poor countries, and hailed Hugo Chávez' Venezuela as a country “with an overdose of democracy.”

• Sunday, March 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Dengue epidemic in Paraguay extends: 15.356 cases admitted

  Paraguay's Ministry of Health head nurse died last Friday of hemorrhagic dengue an epidemics caused by a mosquito which is rapidly extending in the landlocked South American country and has 15.000 cases officially confirmed.

• Thursday, March 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Dengue fever forces Paraguay to declare “national emergency”

  

  Faced with 100.000 cases of dengue infection which have also caused several deaths Paraguayan Congress declared this week a 60 days “national emergency” and voted funds to combat the Aedes agypty mosquito which transmits the disease.

• Thursday, March 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN health agency helping Paraguay control dengue outbreak

  The United Nations Pan American Health Organization, PAHO, a regional arm of the UN World Health Organization, WHO, is assisting Paraguay in its efforts to control an outbreak of dengue fever that has affected thousands.

• Wednesday, February 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Bishop leads polls for Paraguay's 2008 presidential election

  A former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo is the candidate with the best image among voters for the 2008 Paraguayan presidential, while current head of state Nicanor Duarte ranks ten, according to a public opinion poll released Tuesday in the capital Asunción.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Vatican bars Bishop from Paraguayan presidential candidacy

  The Vatican suspended “a divinis” Paraguayan bishop Fernando Lugo for having resigned last year to his church position to become a candidate for the presidential election of 2008.