Paraguay

• Friday, December 31st 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Ships prefer Paraguayan flag to evade Argentine taxes

  

  Argentine sailor unions are warning against the trend whereby Argentine-flagged ships are turning to Paraguayan registration to both circumvent Argentina's blood-thirsty taxation plus benefitting from Paraguay's own scheme, a process which seems likely to go on in the near future.

• Wednesday, December 29th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  IACHR to evaluate Paraguayan President's express impeachment back in 2012

  

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has agreed to accept the case of former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo against the Paraguayan State for his removal of office through impeachment in June 2012.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 20:28 UTC

  Paraguay's economy blooming after 2021; next year looks even better

  

  Paraguay's economy will close in 2021 with a growth of around 5% and good prospects for 2022, Finance Minister Oscar Llamosas announced in a radio interview.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Paraguayan Gov't honors IACHR ruling favoring indigenous peoples

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez's Government Monday gave real-estate ownership (occupation) certificates to indigenous peoples plus a monetary compensation in accordance with rulings from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Eastern cancellations leave hundreds of Paraguayans stranded in Miami

  

  Some 300 Paraguayan nationals who were stranded in Miami after Eastern Airlines canceled its Dec. 18 and 21 flights to Asuncion will be arriving shortly before midnight Friday, it was announced.

• Saturday, December 18th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Uruguay does not sign joint declaration at Mercosur Summit

  

  Uruguay stood out for its dissenting stance at the 59th Summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) Friday after President Luis Lacalle Pou refused to sign a joint declaration.

• Saturday, December 18th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Paraguay insists civil servants must wear clothes made of traditional fabric

  

  The Government of Paraguay has issued a decree whereby civil servants are encouraged to wear clothing made of the ancestral ao po'i fabric on Fridays to promote and protect the country's heritage.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Weather prevents meeting between presidents of Brazil and Paraguay

  

  The Presidents of Brazil and Paraguay, Jair Bolsonaro and Mario Abdo Benítez, were to meet Monday at the Paraguayan town of Carmelo Peralta to lay the cornerstone of a new international bridge, but mainly to go on discussing Itaipu energy fares.

• Monday, December 13th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Two border crossings between Argentine and Paraguay to reopen Monday

  

  Road links through the San Ignacio de Loyola bridge between Puerto Falcón (Paraguay) and Clorinda (Argentina) and river crossings between Alberdi and Puerto Formosa are to reopen after almost two years when only goods could go from one country to another but not people.

• Friday, December 10th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Paraguay decrees tax cut to boost sales to foreign residents in bordering cities

  

  Paraguayan authorities have decided to cut down the Value Added Tax (VAT) by 1% until March 2022 in a move to boost across-the-border trade. The measure applies to goods imported through the so-called Tourism Regime and includes beverages and perfumes.