Paraguay
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:13:00 GMTUS Congressional team meets with Paraguayan Defense Minister
Lawmakers from the United States met Thursday in Asunción with Paraguay's Defense Minister Bernardino Soto Estigarribia to discuss matters of mutual interest, one day ahead of their encounter with President Mario Abdo Benítez...
Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:18:00 GMTConsensus among Mercosur countries to tackle monkeypox
Uruguayan Health Minister Daniel Salinas Monday announced health authorities within Mercosur were drafting a joint plan to fight the monkeypox outbreak.
Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:07:00 GMTParaguay has only 83 park rangers; it needs 5,000
Paraguayan authorities have admitted they only had 83 properly trained park rangers to guard some 2.4 million protected hectares, way below international standards of one for every 500 hectares.
Mon, 01 Aug 2022 08:23:00 GMTParaguayan President pledges to up intelligence funding
Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez last week announced he would up funding for the National Intelligence Secretariat (SNI), an agency created in 2018. Abdo justified his move on the body's precarious budget, due to which ...
Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:15:00 GMTUNWTO helping to promote tourism as a pillar of Paraguay's economic development
Paraguayan president Mario Abdo Benitez during the Renewable Energy and Sustainable Tourism event, welcomed this week UNWTO’s support as the county works to make tourism a central pillar of economic growth, social opportunity...
Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:34:00 GMTUruguay will seek to join Trans-Pacific Partnership; Lacalle announces
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Tuesday announced his administration would seek to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in its current form and that, to that end, he will seek endorsement from all political parties.
Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:08:00 GMTDownspout threatens Paraguay's foreign trade yet again
Paraguayan exporters have decried over this weekend their latent concern about the Paraguay and Parana rivers' low levels which might affect the grain season in January and February if no improvement is recorded, it was reporte...
Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:33:00 GMTBrazil and Paraguay team up against trans-border crime
Authorities from Brazil and Paraguay have launched Operation Ágata and Operation Basalto in a coordinated manner to tackle cross-border organized crime, it was reported this week.
Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:30:00 GMTFormer Paraguayan President Cartés "highly corrupt" for US State Dept.
Former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés (2013-2018) has been added to the US State Department's "black" list of "highly corrupt" individuals, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Friday in a statement.
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:50:00 GMTRio Grande port in south Brazil plans to increase export shipments from Uruguay and Paraguay
The Port of Rio Grande in the Brazilian southernmost state of Rio Grande do sul, will have continuous dredging of its access channel. The decision follows strong long-standing demand from operators and the fact that the main ma...