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Montevideo, May 14th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

Tag: Itaipu Plant

  • Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Bolsonaro's Brazil spied on Paraguay on joint Itaipú plant

    Paraguay's diplomacy is not based on media reports, Ramírez Lezcano highlighted

    Paraguay has launched investigations into an alleged cyberattack by Brazil targeting its government systems to obtain sensitive information about the Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric power plant, Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano confirmed. He said national intelligence and the Technologies and Information Ministry (MITIC) were probing the claims, though no evidence of a breach has been found yet.

  • Friday, May 15th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

    Next Monday Itaipu opens its spillway to help lift the drought stricken Parana river level

    Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina have been negotiating the opening of the spillway, but had to wait for the reservoir to reach its normal level, 219 meters above sea level

    The world's largest operational hydroelectric dam, Itaipu Plant announced that starting next Monday, May 18, it will open its spillway to help Paraguay and Argentina, which are suffering from a drought and hence having problems transporting their grain harvest.