Tag: Chaco region

• Sunday, February 26th 2017 - 13:50 UTC

  Paraguayan guerrillas free abducted teenager after ransom is paid

  

  A Mennonite teenager, Franz Weiber who was abducted last July by Paraguayan Marxist inspired guerrillas in the north of the country was released on Saturday, safe and sound, after the family and friends collected the equivalent of US$ 25.000 in food to distribute among fourteen Indian communities in the area.

• Tuesday, October 21st 2014 - 06:24 UTC

  UK company confirms discovery of oil in the Paraguayan Chaco

  

  President Energy announced on Monday it has discovered good oil-bearing zones at its Lapacho drill in the Paraguayan Chaco and confirms strong hydrocarbon pay at its Jacaranda well.

• Tuesday, June 17th 2014 - 06:49 UTC

  British company spuds exploratory well in Paraguay's Chaco

  

  London AIM listed President Energy PLC, has spudded what it calls the first deep exploration well in the Paraguayan part of the Chaco basin in almost 30 years.

• Saturday, January 12th 2013 - 12:19 UTC

  Second indigenous teenager in a week murdered in the north east of Argentina

  

  Argentine police are investigating a second murder of a member of the Qom indigenous community in less than a week, after a 16-year old died in a Formosa hospital on Thursday after suffering for four days.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2013 - 02:41 UTC

  Indigenous 12-year old beaten to death in north-east Argentina

  

  The death by beating of a 12 year old indigenous Qom child in the north of Argentina had shocked public opinion following on another incident less than a month ago when a gendarme run over an indigenous grandmother and a ten month old baby girl.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2012 - 04:47 UTC

  President Franco says Paraguay will begin pumping oil in mid-2013

  

  Paraguayan president Federico Franco announced on Monday that starting on 2013 the country will become an oil producing nation, after a recent discovery close to the border with Argentina.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 05:13 UTC

  Paraguay begins drilling for oil in the Chaco next December

  

  Paraguay will begin exploring for hydrocarbons in the Chaco region, heartland of South America next 8 December, said oil consultant Mario Garnero after meeting on Tuesday with President Federico Franco.