Tag: Lino Oviedo

• Monday, February 4th 2013 - 05:01 UTC

  Paraguay promises international investigation into the death of Oviedo in helicopter crash

  

  The Paraguayan government announced on Sunday that it will invite international experts to investigate the circumstances of the death of presidential candidate and controversial political figure Lino Oviedo Saturday night when the helicopter transporting him crashed.

• Friday, August 3rd 2012 - 08:20 UTC

  Chavez claims Paraguayan senators tried to blackmail him to vote for Venezuela in Mercosur

  

  President Hugo Chavez said that the incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur was “exemplary” because it never yielded to “blackmail” from the Paraguayan extreme right and revealed that he met with Paraguayan Senator Lino Oviedo, considered the mastermind behind those attempts.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 21:54 UTC

  French president Hollande welcomes new Paraguayan ambassador to Paris

  

  Paraguayan ambassador Emilio Gimenez Franco presented last July 11 his credential letters to French president Francois Hollande, making him the country’s representative before Paris.

• Saturday, February 5th 2011 - 03:40 UTC

  Paraguayan congress puts price to Venezuela’s Mercosur incorporation

  

  The Paraguayan political system is willing to consider the incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur as a full member if there is a “significant gesture or compensation” from the government of President Hugo Chavez, according to congressional sources in Asunción.

• Monday, December 13th 2010 - 23:26 UTC

  Paraguay finally says ‘aye’ to Venezuela’s Mercosur full membership

  

  Venezuela’s incorporation as a full member of Mercosur has been secured following the confirmation of a political agreement in Paraguay, the only of the four-country group that still had a vote pending in congress.