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Montevideo, January 28th 2026 - 08:59 UTC

Paraguay

  • Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 09:13 UTC

    No statute of limitations wanted for Brazilian enslavers

    Aras insisted there were cases such as racism where a statute of limitations does not apply

    Brazil's Attorney General Augusto Aras Monday filed a request before the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to make the crime of “labor analogous to slavery” uneligible for a statute of limitations, which is a constitutional guarantee for defendants, but it is not absolute.

  • Thursday, March 30th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    CIA official meets with Paraguayan president

    After the meeting, Abdo flew to the United States

    Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez Wednesday confirmed having met with US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Deputy Director David Cohen in Asunción to discuss national security issues.

  • Monday, March 27th 2023 - 07:51 UTC

    Paraguay goes into wintertime mode

    The time change was decreed by then-President Horacio Cartes in 2014

    Effective Sunday, Paraguay went into winter time, which meant setting the country's clocks at GMT -4 until the first Sunday of October, which places the entire country one hour behind its Mercosur partners (Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina).

  • Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:21 UTC

    Lugo back in Asunción; Paraguay eager to know whom he will endorse

    Lugo understands everything but cannot speak at length, Querey explained

    Former Paraguayan President and current Senator Fernando Lugo returned to Asunción Friday on a private flight after eight months of medical treatment in Buenos Aires for a brain stroke. Little over a month before the April 30 elections, opposition politicians still wonder whom the former Catholic bishop will favor: former Foreign Minister Euclides Acevedo (New Republic) or Efraín Alegre (National Concertation)

  • Friday, March 24th 2023 - 09:57 UTC

    US adds 3 Paraguayans to list of significantly corrupt officials

    The infamous list already includes former President Horacio Cartes and current Vice President Hugo Velázquez

    The US State Department has added three Paraguayan nationals to its list of “significantly corrupt” officials just one day after signing a new arrangement with the South American country whereby military engineers would assist in future waterway developments.

  • Thursday, March 23rd 2023 - 10:29 UTC

    New team of prosecutors to investigate former Paraguayan President Cartes

    The opposition presidential hopeful has filed some of the cases now brought back to active status

    A new team of prosecutors created this week by Attorney General Emiliano Rolón will investigate former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes for alleged false statements in the Pandora Papers inquiry and for his involvement in the operations of the Venezuelan-Iranian Boeing 747-300 freighter and its 18 crew members.

  • Tuesday, March 21st 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Argentina tries to collect toll from Paraguay for Parana waterway traffic

    “This attitude of the Argentine authorities of not recognizing and ignoring international agreements and pacts is very striking,” Dos Santos explained

    As of Monday last week, Argentina's General Administration of Ports (AGP) started issuing invoices for “navigation settlements of the previous months.” In other words, a fee began to be collected for the passage of Paraguayan cargo through the Santa Fe-Confluencia section.

  • Tuesday, March 21st 2023 - 09:55 UTC

    Enslaved Paraguayan workers freed in Rio de Janeiro

    The 19 Paraguayans had been brought in blindfolded and were not aware that they were in Rio de Janeiro

    Brazil's Federal Police Monday freed 19 Paraguayan nationals who were working at a Rio de Janeiro clandestine cigarette factory in slave-like conditions, Agencia Brasil reported. The workers arrived in Brazil blindfolded and did not even know they were in the municipality of Duque de Caxias, in Baixada Fluminense.

  • Friday, March 17th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    Lula and Abdo discuss Itaipú, Unasur, and UE deal

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Thursday told his Paraguayan colleague Mario Abdo Benítez about his intentions to reorganize Unasur and reinforce Mercosur's unity. Lula and Abdo met at the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant in Foz do Iguazú.

  • Thursday, March 16th 2023 - 06:11 UTC

    Paraguayan gov't wants no more red tape from US on beef exports

    Ambassador Ostfield was moderately optimistic about the issue

    Paraguayan authorities insisted this week before the US Embassy that there were no sanitary impediments for the northern country to welcome beef shipments from the South American nation, only red tape was hindering progress in that regard.