Paraguay

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:09:00 GMT
Iguazú Falls closed as the river’s flow tops 12,000 cubic metres per second
Iguazú National Park, in Argentina’s Misiones province, closed access to the falls’ walkways on Monday because of an exceptional rise in the Iguazú River, whose flow exceeded 12,000 cubic metres per second. The flood is p...

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:09:00 GMT
Paraguay's opposition takes Asunción from the Colorado Party and holds Ciudad del Este
Paraguay's opposition won the mayoralty of Asunción and held that of Ciudad del Este, the country's two most populous cities, in Sunday's municipal elections, according to preliminary results from the electoral authority. The ...

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:35:00 GMT
The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay
US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 26 temporarily waiving tariffs on imports of up to 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings, a measure that excludes countries already holding their own quotas in the US ma...

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:20:00 GMT
Peña says the Milei-Lula crisis has not affected how Mercosur functions
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña said on Friday that the differences between his Argentine and Brazilian counterparts, Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have had no consequences for Mercosur, despite the diplomati...

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:40:00 GMT
Lula says Paraguay chose to invade Brazil; Paraguayan Congress accuses him of distorting history
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva invoked the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) to defend increased defense spending, in remarks that drew formal rejection this week from both chambers of Paraguay's Congress.

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:48:00 GMT
Family of murdered journalist urges Paraguay to comply with Inter-American Court ruling
The widow and children of Paraguayan journalist Santiago Leguizamón, murdered in 1991, have called on the state to fully comply with the ruling in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found Paraguay responsible for f...

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:03:00 GMT
Argentina's polar spell eases as Patagonia faces rain, snow and 90 km/h gusts
The intense polar air mass that affected much of Argentina during the first days of July has begun to ease, with a gradual rise in temperatures across the center and north of the country, while Patagonia now concentrates the mo...

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:35:00 GMT
French football federation to file complaint over Paraguayan senator's racist attack on Mbappé
The French Football Federation (FFF) announced on Monday that it will file a complaint with prosecutors over racist posts by Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla directed at France captain Kylian Mbappé, and called for judicial...

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:28:00 GMT
Mercosur leaders push for a regional security architecture against organized crime
The fight against transnational organized crime emerged as one of the central themes of Mercosur's 68th summit of heads of state, held on Tuesday in the Paraguayan city of Luque, where several leaders called for building a regi...

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:26:00 GMT
Uruguay takes over the Mercosur presidency vowing to modernize and open the bloc
Uruguay's President Yamandú Orsi on Tuesday assumed the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur and set as a priority of his term to "keep modernizing" the bloc and consolidate its trade opening, following the provisional entry int...

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