Paraguay

• Friday, September 29th 2023 - 09:27 UTC

  Trade deal between Paraguay and the United States extended until 2025

  

  Authorities from Paraguay and the United States agreed in Asunción this week to extend until 2025 an agreement in place since 2019 to expedite the exchange, marketing, importation, and exportation of agricultural products.

• Thursday, September 28th 2023 - 09:37 UTC

  Cafiero: “No hypothesis of conflict” between Argentina and Paraguay

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Wednesday denied his country had any “hypothesis of conflict” with Paraguay despite recent controversies over tolls collected from barges sailing along the Paraná River Waterway and Asunción canceling all electricity supply from the Yacyretá hydroelectric power plant.

• Thursday, September 28th 2023 - 08:46 UTC

  Paraguayan Navy sailor wounded in clash with Argentine Coast Guard

  

  A Paraguayan naval officer and two civilians were arrested Wednesday by the Argentine Coast Guard (PNA) following an incident at around 3 pm in the Paraná River near the PNA's Puerto Maní (Misiones) delegation that resulted in the seizure of a Paraguayan Navy vessel allegedly trying to smuggle fuel to the Paraguayan side.

• Wednesday, September 27th 2023 - 09:45 UTC

  No agreement reached during Paraná Waterway multilateral meeting

  

  Argentina will continue to charge a toll to barges sailing through the Paraná River Waterway after no agreement was reached Tuesday during a Technical Commission meeting at the Brazilian Embassy in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, September 26th 2023 - 09:16 UTC

  Paraguayan lawmakers bring waterway crisis before Parlasur

  

  Paraguayan lawmakers took to the Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur) in Montevideo the crisis stemming from Argentina charging tolls to barges sailing through the Paraná River Waterway, it was reported Monday in the Uruguayan capital. They displayed banners reading “Free navigation now”, “Free navigation always”, and “Waterway = Mercosur”.

• Friday, September 22nd 2023 - 10:04 UTC

  Argentina releasing LPG trucks bound for Paraguay

  

  In the latest episode of the feud between Argentina and Paraguay, trucks carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bound for Asunción and detained by Argentine customs began to be released Thursday, it was reported, a week after barges carrying fuel were also detained for unpaid tolls on the Paraná River waterway.

• Thursday, September 21st 2023 - 11:12 UTC

  Paraguayan lawmaker ready for war with Argentina

  

  Paraguayan Congressman Rubén Isaac Rubín Orrego of the National Encounter Alliance (Alianza Encuentro Nacional - AEN) Wednesday said his country needed “missiles that can hit important points in the region because, otherwise, we are already losing the diplomatic game” with Argentina amid escalating tension between the two countries.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 08:05 UTC

  Tension between Argentina and Paraguay on the rise

  

  Tension between Argentina and Paraguay is on the rise after Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa argued that his country had paid for the construction of the Yacyretá Dam between the 1980s and 1990s and was still owed “billions of dollars” for it.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 09:44 UTC

  Paraguayan forensic psychologist causes uproar with swastika tattoo

  

  The swastika tattoo on the forearm of Paraguayan Forensic Psychologist Juan Vicente Martínez Miranda failed to go unnoticed during a TV interview and sparked an uproar Monday in the South American country since the specialist works for the national Judiciary.

• Monday, September 18th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  Washington's help called for in Paraná Waterway crisis

  

  With too much negotiating and no solution on the radar, the US-Paraguayan Chamber of Commerce (Usapacc) has asked President Joseph Biden's administration to get involved in the brokering of an answer to Argentina's decision to charge tolls to barges sailing through the Paraná River Waterway.