Paraguay

Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 - 08:22 UTC
Rousseff reminds Cartes that Paraguay belongs to Mercosur and is strategic for Brazil

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff received her peer from Paraguay, Horacio Cartes with full head of state honours but at the same time reminded him that Paraguay is a full member of Mercosur and “bilateral relations are in the context of multilateral relations with all countries of the hemisphere”.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 - 07:39 UTC
UK reopens embassy in Asuncion which was closed since 2005

The British embassy in Paraguay which was remained closed since 2005 will be reopened this week according to Paraguayan foreign minister Eladio Loizaga. The news was confirmed following a meeting of the Paraguayan official with Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 16:39 UTC
Paraguayan economy boosted by agriculture expanding at an annual 13.3%

Paraguay’s GDP expanded 13.3% in the second quarter of this year boosted by agriculture and beef exports, according to the latest release from the Central bank. Agriculture has proved the most dynamic sector with 6.2% growth helping Paraguay to have the fastest growing economy this year in Latam following on a 0.9% retraction last year, because of an extended drought.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 16:32 UTC
Paraguay’s Cartes in Brazil to discuss trade, security, cooperation and Mercosur

Paraguay president Horacio Cartes arrived Monday morning to Brazil for a round of talks with President Dilma Rousseff which includes political, economic, energy, trade and security issues, plus the full return of Paraguay to Mercosur, an intricate matter dating back to events of June 2012.
Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 08:19 UTC
Paraguay and Venezuela discussions to re-establish full relations and on Mercosur

Representatives from Paraguay and Venezuela are scheduled to re-take bilateral and Mercosur related discussions on the sides of the UN General Assembly this week in New York, according to Deputy foreign minister Manuel María Cáceres
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:30 UTC
Paraguay businesses react to Cartes words: ‘first find the scoundrels and only then the claims’

Paraguay’s Industrial Union, UIP, reacted strongly to President Horacio Cartes claims that the private sector was responsible for much that is wrong in government, and suggested an ‘intelligence work’ in the civil service to catch the ‘scoundrels and corrupt’.
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 01:55 UTC
Paraguay expects to return to Mercosur in 2014; Chile offers closer links and access to the Pacific

President Horacio Cartes said that during 2014 links between Paraguay and Mercosur will be fully re-established and by then all the skirmishes motivated by the access of Venezuela as full member of the group, “will be overcome”. However Cartes also mentioned that Paraguay, with support from Chile has a strategic access to the Pacific basin.
Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:19 UTC
Cartes on a two-day visit to Pacific Alliance member Chile to promote trade and investments

Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes begins on Monday a two-day visit to Chile where he is scheduled to meet his peer Sebastián Piñera and hold a round of talks with business people inviting them to invest in Paraguay. At the end of the month Cartes will be flying to Brasilia to meet President Dilma Rousseff.
Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:22 UTC
Brazil forecasted to become the leading country in soybean production

Brazil is to top the world soybean production league for the first time, thanks to the incentive to farmers provided from resilient prices and a weak Real, overtaking the US, whose hopes have been dented by drought.
Thursday, September 12th 2013 - 01:49 UTC
Argentina thanks Paraguay for granting General Peron asylum in 1955

The government of President Cristina Fernandez thanked Paraguay for granting political asylum to Juan Domingo Peron, three times elected president of Argentina, at their embassy in Buenos Aires, when he was ousted by a military coup in September 1955