Tag: Paraguay

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.
Sunday, September 8th 2013 - 00:29 UTC
Paraguay insists it does recognize Venezuela as a full member of Mercosur

Paraguay as full member and in full exercise of that condition does not recognize Venezuela as president or full member of the group, according to a communiqué sent to all of Paraguay’s ministries and overseas representations.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 01:37 UTC
Paraguay insists in reviewing all decisions adopted by Mercosur during its 14-month suspension

Foreign minister Eladio Loizaga said Paraguay will hold before Mercosur the same position it sustained at the Unasur summit in Suriname requesting that all decisions adopted during the last year and two months in which the country was suspended, are formally analyzed.
Monday, September 2nd 2013 - 12:00 UTC
Maduro apologizes to Paraguay for any ‘pain’ caused and promises ‘to repair the error’

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro apologized to his peer Paraguayan peer Horacio Cartes for any ‘pain’ caused to Paraguay and promised a ‘sacrifice’ to repair the ‘error’, according to sources from both presidents and from Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff who sponsored the meeting between the two heads of state in the framework of the recent Unasur VII summit in Suriname.
Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 00:29 UTC
Paraguay and Venezuela resume political dialogue at Unasur summit

Paraguay and Venezuela presidents Horacio Cartes and Nicolas Maduro met on Friday for over half an hour following the mediation of Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff during the Unasur summit taking place in Paramaribo, Suriname. The meeting was made official by the Paraguayan presidency office and twits from the Planalto Palace, seat of the Brazilian executive.
Thursday, August 29th 2013 - 02:20 UTC
Freezing frosts kill 4.000 cattle in landlocked Paraguay

Freezing cold temperature from heavy frosts are estimated to have killed at least 4.000 head of cattle in landlocked Paraguay, according to the primary reports from the country’s National Animal Quality and Health service, Senasa.
Tuesday, August 27th 2013 - 01:39 UTC
Paraguayan president plans round of visits to Mercosur neighbours

Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes will be making a round of visits to neighbouring countries beginning with Argentina, which will be followed by Brazil, Uruguay and Chile before the end of the year, revealed foreign ministry sources.
Monday, August 19th 2013 - 13:17 UTC
Paraguay’s Cartes will attend Unasur summit in Suriname; ‘informal’ meeting with Venezuela’s Maduro?

Paraguay’s newly inaugurated president Horacio Cartes will be attending the Unasur summit (Union of South American Nations), scheduled for the end of the month in Paramaribo, Suriname, when most probably he will ‘come across’ with his Venezuelan peer Nicolas Maduro, announced the Paraguayan foreign ministry. Paraguay and Venezuela currently have no diplomatic links.
Friday, August 16th 2013 - 02:57 UTC
Paraguay new president pledges ‘war on poverty’ and improved relations with neighbours

Conservative businessman Horacio Cartes was sworn in as president of Paraguay on Thursday, amid slowly improving relations with South American neighbors, and Mercosur members, damaged by the 2012 removal of populist President Fernando Lugo, who was impeached on incompetence.
Thursday, August 15th 2013 - 03:51 UTC
Mercosur controversy, Cartes main challenge when he takes office on Thursday

Most presidents and top authorities that will attend the inauguration of Paraguayan president-elect Horacio Cartes on Thursday morning arrived in Asunción on Wednesday and most of them have already held private meetings with the future leader of the country.