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Montevideo, July 16th 2025 - 14:15 UTC

Tag: Ciudad del Este

  • Friday, July 4th 2025 - 09:50 UTC

    Woman shot at Brazilian consulate in Ciudad del Este

    The perpetrator tried to kill himself and left a note to his family

    Brazilian national Cássio Mussawer Montenegro opened fire Thursday at approximately 1.30 pm against Prima Felicia Benítez de Cantuni, a 78-year-old former judge who works as a legal advisor at the Brazilian Consulate in Ciudad del Este. During the attack at the diplomatic mission, the woman was shot in the left arm. Security personnel fired back. The perpetrator then tried to kill himself but failed. They are both hospitalized, the Alto Paraná Police Chief, Crio Feliciano Martínez, confirmed.

  • Friday, March 1st 2024 - 10:23 UTC

    Emergency declared in Paraguay's Ciudad del Este amid growing crime rate

    Some 200 law enforcement officers would be sent in from Asunción, Governor Landy Torres explained

    The Paraguayan enclave of Ciudad del Este, the capital of the department of Alto Paraná, on the border with Argentina and Brazil, has been declared under emergency due to a growing wave of insecurity. Mayor Miguel Prieto spoke of an “unsustainable” situation with many robberies “that we only see in movies.” The measure will be in force for 30 days but might be extended to deal with “repeated criminal events.”

  • Friday, June 24th 2022 - 00:28 UTC

    Paraguay launches probe into Emtrasur 747's Ciudad del Este stop

    “I think there was more than cigarettes on that plane,” Salomón argued.

    Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez has instructed the Anti-corruption Minister René Fernández to request the Prosecutor's Office to launch a probe into the stop in Ciudad del Este in May of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 aircraft with Iranian pilots currently held in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, September 17th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

    Brazil installs sanitary control facilities near Paraguayan border

    Brazil is toughening on anticovid measures.

    Brazil health authorities Thursday set up a huge awning about 50 meters from the International Friendship Bridge crossing into Paraguay to carry out quick COVID-19 tests. The campaign will span for two weeks and will not be mandatory.

  • Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 06:49 UTC

    Police arrests alleged leading Hezbollah financier in the triple border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay

    Assad Ahmad Barakat, 51, was arrested on Brazil's three-way border with Argentina and Paraguay, Ciudad del Este, close to the world-renown Iguazu Falls

    Brazilian police on Friday arrested a Lebanese citizen on suspicions of raising funds for Lebanon-based Shiite military group Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist group.

  • Wednesday, May 12th 2010 - 00:03 UTC

    Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay Angry with Oscar-Winning Director Bigelow Film Project

    Director Kathryn Bigelow's plans a movie on The Triple Frontier, a controversial area next to the Iguazu waterfalls

    Argentine Secretary of Tourism said Enrique Meyer said that Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay are angry with Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's latest project, a film focusing on a border region, shared by the three countries and thought to be a centre for smuggling and terror financing.