Tag: Paraguay

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 06:44 UTC

  Paraguay’s 2010/11 soy bean crop could reach 8.4 million tons

  

  Paraguay’s 2010/11 soy bean crop covers 2.830.000 hectares (twice the area ten years ago) and the expected yield is between 2.900 and 3.100 kilos per hectare according to the latest satellite pictures in hands of the Paraguayan Chamber of Grains and Oilseed Exporters, Capeco.
  So far the record yield dates back to 2003 with a national average of 2.915 kilos.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Brazilian congress set to approve this week compensation for Paraguayan power

  

  The Brazilian government is intent in increasing to 360 million US dollars annual payment for the surplus power from the world’s largest operational hydroelectric dam Itaipu, shared with Paraguay promised Marco Aurerlio Garcia President Dilma Rousseff international affairs advisor and special envoy.

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 01:54 UTC

  Mujica: we need Venezuela in Mercosur “to help balance the group”

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica promised his peer Hugo Chavez he would press strongly for Venezuela’s incorporation as full member of Mercosur because this will help balance the group.

• Sunday, March 27th 2011 - 05:13 UTC

  Paraguayan economy expands an all time record of 15.3% in 2010

  

  Boosted by agriculture Paraguay's economy grew an all time record of 15,3% in 2010, following on a 3.8% contraction in 2009, according to the latest release from the Central bank.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:13 UTC

  Deaths and thousands infected with dengue in Paraguay and Bolivia

  

  The dengue disease transmitted by the ”Aedes aegypti” mosquito is again on the attack in most South American countries with Paraguay reporting 18 deaths and Bolivia, 20 and thousands infected so far this year.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 02:17 UTC

  Academic seminar in Paraguay to celebrate 20 years of Mercosur

  

  An academic seminar “20 years of Mercosur” will be the main celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the South American trade block, unable to convene political figures from the four full member countries to commemorate the 26 March 1991 founding charter or Asuncion Treaty.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 02:44 UTC

  Brazil reiterates significance of Mercosur and strategic relation with Argentina

  

  Brazil reaffirmed the significance of Mercosur for President Dilma Rousseff administration’s foreign policy and underlined the strategic relation with Argentina, Brazil’s main associate in the trade block.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 22:17 UTC

  Brazilian president conditions pending visit to Paraguay

  

  President Dilma Rousseff will not be visiting Paraguay until the Brazilian Congress approves the Itaipú reversal notes which establish a greater compensation for surplus power purchased from Paraguay by Latin America’s energy hungry largest economy.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 19:46 UTC

  Paraguay’s “sausage-making” foreign policy has a new minister, Lara Castro

  

  Paraguay has a new Foreign Affaire minister, Jorge Lara Castro who until now was Deputy to Hector Lacognata and who had presented his resignation three weeks ago.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:48 UTC

  “Not even dressed as Father Christmas” will Chavez make it to Mercosur

  

  “Not even dressed as Father Christmas can president Hugo Chavez make Venezuela become a member of Mercosur”, according to a 2009 Wikileaks cable quoting Paraguay’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Lacognata during an informal talk with US ambassador in Asuncion Liliana Ayalde.