Paraguay

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Paraguayans skipping booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine

  

  Paraguayan health authorities have expressed their concern over a slowdown in vaccination against COVID-19, with very few booster doses applied.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 09:06 UTC

  New beneficiaries of Taiwanese scholarships announced in Asunción

  

  Taiwan's Embassy in Asunción launched this week the 2022 edition of the program for Paraguayan students willing to pursue their educational goals on the Asian island.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 08:43 UTC

  Paraguay's VP has a change of mind: will not resign

  

  After announcing last week that he would resign, Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velazquez conveyed to reporters Thursday his decision to remain in office until proof against him is submitted.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 08:31 UTC

  Low-cost flights between Asunción and BA's Ezeiza announced

  

  Commercial aviation services linking Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport with Asunción' Silvio Pettirossi by a budget airline have been announced.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 21:35 UTC

  Paraguayan Senator wants VP to resign or face impeachment

  

  Since Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez is yet to resign from his post, which he had vowed to do Friday after being added by the United States to the list of “significantly corrupt individuals,” Senator Martín Arévalo stressed that the Lower House would have to move on with the impeachment procedures.

• 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.