Paraguay

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 09:44 UTC

  New Zealand promotes trade and farm expertise with Argentina and Uruguay

  

  Farmers, dairy product manufacturers and trade representatives in Uruguay and Argentina are hearing a New Zealand take on current agricultural issues this week.

• Friday, November 9th 2018 - 01:09 UTC

  Flybondi to cross the border in December with Asunción, Punta del Este services

  

  Argentine budget airline Flybondi will go international starting December 17 with a flight between El Palomar in the Greater Buenos Aires area and the Paraguayan capital Asunción. Three days later it will commence serving Punta del Este from El Palomar and also from Córdoba.

• Thursday, October 4th 2018 - 19:24 UTC

  Paraguayan lawmaker aims at curbing wages of elected officials

  

  Paraguayan Senator Payo Cubas submitted a bill whereby all elected officials may not earn above five minimum wages and renounce all other privileges such as the current retirement scheme.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 06:49 UTC

  Police arrests alleged leading Hezbollah financier in the triple border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay

  

  Brazilian police on Friday arrested a Lebanese citizen on suspicions of raising funds for Lebanon-based Shiite military group Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist group.

• Thursday, August 16th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  New president takes office in Paraguay pledging to combat poverty and corruption

  

  Mario Abdo Benitez, “Marito”, took over as Paraguay's new president on Wednesday, replacing a seemingly disgruntled Horacio Cartes, who left the inauguration ceremony before it finished. Abdo Benitez, 46, promised to combat poverty and entrenched corruption, and urged Paraguayans to “look toward the future and not remain stuck in the past” as he took the oath of office to start a five-year term.

• Tuesday, July 31st 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Taiwan president will attend inauguration of Paraguay's Mario Abdo Benitez

  

  President Tsai Ing-wen will visit two of Taiwan's diplomatic allies, Paraguay and Belize, Aug. 12-20, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Maria Liu said on Monday. On the trip, Tsai will make transit stops in the United States - in Los Angeles on first leg and in Houston on the return journey, Liu said.

• Friday, July 27th 2018 - 07:10 UTC

  Paraguayan agriculture minister and his deputy die in air crash

  

  Paraguay Agriculture Minister Luis Gneiting and three others died when the twin-engine airplane carrying them to the capital Asuncion crashed into a wetland on Wednesday night, an official told reporters on Thursday.

• Tuesday, July 24th 2018 - 07:00 UTC

  EU waters down Mercosur expectations of a trade agreement next September

  

  Despite EU and Mercosur countries remaining committed to reaching a trade agreement, the European Commission did not endorse the South American bloc’s target to reach an agreement by September, as substantial gaps remain between the two sides.

• Sunday, July 15th 2018 - 22:15 UTC

  Paraguayan Liberal lawmaker agrees retirement should be at age 75

  

  Liberal deputy Celeste Amarilla agreed 75 years is a right age for retirement. She made those remarks during a radio interview as she argued that at 60 people still have a lot of intellectual and physical strength and called for the matter to be discussed.

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 11:14 UTC

  Uruguay chair of Mercosur, targets accord with China, exhausted of negotiations with the EU

  

  Uruguay will be handed the rotating chair of Mercosur this Monday in a brief summit ceremony to take place in Paraguay. Attending will be Brazil's Michel Temer, Uruguay's Tabare Vázquez, the host Paraguay Horacio Cartes and in representation of Argentina, vice president Gabriela Michetti. President Mauricio Macri is in the midst of a cabinet reshuffle and waiting for market reaction this Monday following the naming of a new Central Bank chairman.