Paraguay

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:03:00 GMT
Paraguay arrests four Americans for marijuana smuggling
Paraguayan authorities have detained four US citizens following the seizure on Saturday of a private aircraft arriving from Miami that was carrying 261.6 kilograms of marijuana with high tetrahydrocannabinol content, the Nation...

Fri, 29 May 2026 06:31:00 GMT
Capricorn Bioceanic Corridor advances to final stretch to connect Atlantic with Pacific
The Capricorn Bioceanic Corridor, one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects underway in South America, is moving through its final stretch on the border between Paraguay and Brazil, with just twenty-one metres remaining...

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:44:00 GMT
Paraguayan Prosecutor's Office maps Marset drug route from Bolivia to European ports
The Paraguayan Prosecutor's Office has filed an indictment against Gianina García Troche, the former partner of Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, that reconstructs in detail the criminal structure operating from Par...

Wed, 20 May 2026 23:38:00 GMT
Argentina opens economic bids for Paraná-Paraguay waterway amid warnings of irregularities
The government of Javier Milei proceeded on Tuesday to open the economic bids submitted by the two international consortia competing for the 25-year concession of the Paraná-Paraguay waterway, Argentina's main fluvial trade ar...

Wed, 13 May 2026 16:38:00 GMT
Paraguay aims for 10 million tourists by 2037 with megaparks and foreign capital
The new minister of Paraguay's National Tourism Secretariat (Senatur), Jacinto Santa María, has announced a plan to turn the country into a regional tourism destination and draw up to 10 million annual visitors by 2037, a targ...

Fri, 01 May 2026 06:40:00 GMT
After 25 years of negotiation, the Mercosur-EU agreement takes effect this Friday
The association agreement between Mercosur and the European Union (EU) enters provisionally into force on Friday May 1, after more than a quarter-century of negotiations, in what constitutes one of the world's most ambitious tr...

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:22:00 GMT
Ex-President Lacalle Pou: 'I will not die without seeing Paraguay have a sea outlet in Uruguay'
Former Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou (2020-2025) reignited the debate on Tuesday over the construction of a port in Uruguayan territory aimed at providing Paraguay with maritime access, during an event in the Paraguayan ...

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:17:00 GMT
Paraguay attracts record foreigners with low taxes and new investor residency program
Foreign residency applications in Paraguay surged 85% in the first quarter of 2026, reaching 18,071 compared to 9,760 in the same period of 2025, the National Migration Directorate reported. Temporary residency requests jumped ...

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:17:00 GMT
At least 12 schools in Paraguay receive shooting threats; authorities probe possible viral "challenge"
At least 12 schools in Paraguay received shooting threats between Thursday and Friday, with messages written on bathroom walls reading "tomorrow there will be a shooting," said Sonia Escauriza, director of Child and Adolescent ...

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:08:00 GMT
“We are oppressed in Brazil”: thousands of conservative Brazilians seek new life in Paraguay
Hundreds of Brazilians camped overnight on beach chairs, plastic benches and tarps outside an immigration center in Ciudad del Este, on the border with Brazil, to secure a spot in a Paraguayan government drive to fast-track res...

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