Paraguay

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 21:48 UTC

  Tracheotomy performed on former Paraguayan President Lugo

  

  Former Paraguayan President and current Senator Fernando Lugo had a tracheotomy performed on him late Tuesday after complications that led physicians to postpone the withdrawal of life-support paraphernalia.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 21:34 UTC

  Paraguayan President picks Velázquez's replacement as candidate, but the story is not finished

  

  Paraguay's ruling Fuerza Republicana faction from within the Colorado Party has chosen Public Works Minister and former evangelical Pastor Arnoldo Wiens as the future presidential candidate following Vice President Hugo Velázquez's announcement that he would resign his current job and back down from the 2023 electoral race.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  Partners want to sever all Cartes partnerships

  

  Chilean business associates of disgraced former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés would be pushing to break up all commercial ties with the man declared as “significantly corrupt” by the US State Department last month.

• Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 10:06 UTC

  Paraguayan VP to resign after joining US list of those “significantly corrupt”

  

  Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez Friday announced in a radio interview that he would be resigning his job and stepping down from the presidential race after being added by the United States to the list of people “significantly corrupt,” where he joined former President Horacio Cartés.

• Friday, August 12th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Uruguayan drug trafficker involved in several crimes, accused of ordering murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci

  

  Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset has been accused of ordering the death of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was murdered in May on the island of Barú, in the Colombian Caribbean, reported Colombian newspaper El Tiempo on Tuesday.

• Friday, August 12th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Lugo still in serious condition after surgery

  

  Former Paraguayan leftwing President Fernando Lugo underwent surgery Thursday and remains in intensive care in serious condition at an Asunción Sanatorium, it was reported.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 20:49 UTC

  Former Paraguayan President Lugo in ICU

  

  Former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has been hospitalized Wednesday in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after a stroke for which he remains under an induced coma, according to fellow leftwing Senator Jorge Querey, who is also the family's head physician.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 19:38 UTC

  Brazil and Paraguay cut down energy prices at Itaipu

  

  Authorities from Brazil and Paraguay have announced a reduction in the price of energy from the binational Itaipu power plant from US$ 22.60 to US$20.75 per kilowatt.

• Friday, August 5th 2022 - 08:13 UTC

  US Congressional team meets with Paraguayan Defense Minister

  

  Lawmakers from the United States met Thursday in Asunción with Paraguay's Defense Minister Bernardino Soto Estigarribia to discuss matters of mutual interest, one day ahead of their encounter with President Mario Abdo Benítez at the López Palace.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Consensus among Mercosur countries to tackle monkeypox

  

  Uruguayan Health Minister Daniel Salinas Monday announced health authorities within Mercosur were drafting a joint plan to fight the monkeypox outbreak.