Paraguay

• 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

• Thursday, September 12th 2013 - 01:14 UTC

  Latam trade and growth reflects the weak global economy says Eclac

  

  The foreign trade performance of Latin America and the Caribbean reflects the weak global economy. Regional export values are expected to grow by just 1.5% in 2013 (3% in volumes and -1.5% in prices) - which is similar to the 1.4% growth observed in 2012.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2013 - 02:04 UTC

  Special Mercosur parliament committee to help decide on Paraguay/Venezuela controversy

  

  Mercosur parliament, Parlasur, resumed activities on Monday and the first thing it agreed on was to name a committee to help find a way out to the controversy between Paraguay and Venezuela. Although Venezuela holds the rotating chair of Mercosur, Paraguay refuses to acknowledge even its status as full member of the regional group.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2013 - 00:37 UTC

  Paraguayan president Cartes visits Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires

  

  Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes is expected in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, following an invitation from his Argentine peer Cristina Fernandez, which will be his first overseas bilateral trip since taking office 15 August.