America, in intensive care due to new wave from Brazil to Colombia or EcuadorRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In the midst of the intense vaccination campaigns imposed by the different governments in the American countries, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Paraguay end this Friday a week with peaks and emergency measures to get out of the intensive care to which the latest data on inf....
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Brazil's poultry producer BRF begins to import corn from Argentina and ParaguayRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - From January to March, imports increased 90% over the previous year, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Trade. BRF (BRFS3), the country's largest poultry processor, has bought two shipments of corn from Argentina to help control costs, the company said this ....
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Moody's upgrades banking outlook for Paraguay, Panama and ArgentinaRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The rating agency Moody's has improved the outlook of the banking system of Paraguay, Panama and Argentina, by changing its rating from "negative" to "stable", the entity informed on Thursday. In Paraguay and Panama's case, the improvement in their ratings is due to the "sta....
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Paraguay-Brazil bridge construction deferred to allocate funds to fight CovidRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The figure corresponds to this year’s amount for investment in the bridge on the Paraguayan side of the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant, shared with Brazil, an infrastructure whose opening of bids were scheduled for April 28th. “Taking into account the pos....
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"The problem in Paraguay is not money, but corruption", says senator regarding potential tax raiseRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The legislator of the Patria Querida party affirmed that taxpayers are being undermined more and more and receive less in return. He criticized that there has been no progress in terms of improving public spending and the recent salary increase approved in the Upper Ho....
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Analysis: Paraguay faces dilemma of breaking with Taiwan in order to get vaccines from ChinaRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The health situation in Paraguay is dramatic. The exponential increase of infections, collapsed hospitals, 33 percent of health workers ill, and cases of corruption in the purchase of supplies for the pandemic forced the departure of almost half of the cabinet. Also, in the ....
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Paraguay's country risk decreases at the beginning of AprilRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - At the beginning of April, Paraguay's country risk decreased with respect to the last data of February, in line with the average of Latin American countries, and is located around 210 basis points above the US treasury bonds, according to the consulting firm Grant Thornton P....
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Cuba made available to Paraguay Soberana 2 anticovid vaccine, according to ambassadorRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - "Cuba has 4 vaccines; 2 very advanced in stage 3″, mentioned the diplomat. He emphasized that the island's chancellery has manifested its predisposition to trade with the country "without any inconvenience". "We will see what decision is taken, everything is on track", he ....
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Paraguay will require quarantine for those entering the country from BrazilRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - As of Wednesday, April 7, Paraguay will adopt more stringent measures for those entering the country from Brazil. According to Guillermo Sequera, Health Surveillance director, besides presenting a negative PCR test, the person must be quarantined for a period of 7 days. Isol....
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Covid-19 variant identified in Brazil spreads through South AmericaRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Some 40% of the coronavirus cases detected recently in Lima, Peru, is associated with the variant. In Uruguay, the strain is responsible for 30% of Covid-19 cases, and in Paraguay, half of the cases identified on the border with Brazil are caused by P.1. According to the Wor....
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Mercosur: Argentine minister accuses Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay of pure ideological dogmatismRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Matías Kulfas, Argentina's Minister of Productive Development, admits that Mercosur is going through "a tense moment". Partners such as Uruguay and Brazil want more flexibility and lower external tariffs, and the last meeting of the organization a few days ago concluded wit....
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Paraguay opens military barracks for patients due to overwhelmed hospitalsRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - "What we enabled this morning is already a third line of action in the catastrophic scenario that we are now facing," Roque Silva, director of the XI Health Region, told the media during the enabling of 25 beds at the headquarters of the Army's Military Teaching Institutes C....
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Taiwan helps desperate Paraguay with Covid-19 vaccinesRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay's Foreign Minister Euclides Acevedo Tuesday cried out to the world, particularly Taiwan and the United States, for anti-covid-19 vaccines to curb the spread of the disease, which has killed over 4,000 people so far. "I want to tell our allies that they have to respo....
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Paraguay quarantines Indian vaccine pending Brazilian rulingRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay quarantined the 100,000 doses of Covaxin donated by India while awaiting the opinion of Mexico and Brazil's regulatory bodies, the latter not approving its emergency use for the moment, informed the Ministry of Health on Tuesday, March 30. The batch delivered on Mon....
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Paraguay records new record number of deaths due to coronavirusRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay registered this Sunday, March 28, a new record number of daily deaths due to coronavirus, with 60 deaths in the last hours, bringing the number of deaths due to this disease to 4,063, according to the report of the Ministry of Health. In the last 24 hours, of the [&....
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Experts in Paraguay demand the closure of borders to Brazil due to advance of Manaus variantRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Alarmed by the collapse in Brazil, the Paraguayan Society of Infectious Diseases expressed its concern regarding Paraguay's free transit to Brazil. The fact is that Paraguay started yesterday a new strict quarantine that will last during the whole Holy Week until Sunday, Apr....
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Thirty Years of the Southern Common MarketThe Southern Common Market (Mercosur) was founded upon the signing of the Treaty of Asuncion in 1991 by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The bloc is a historic achievement in the region and one of the major milestones in Latin American econom....
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Paraguay calls for Easter Week confinement to curb the pandemicRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In little more than a year of pandemic, Paraguay has accumulated over 200,000 infections and nearly 4,000 deaths, with a surge in cases in recent weeks which have resulted in a full occupation of its precarious ICU and general healthcare system. "In general hospitalization w....
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Chile and Argentina commit to connect South America with Asia by marine cableRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The proposal was made in the middle of a virtual Mercosur summit that also brought together leaders from Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia. The President of the Republic of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, in the framework of the virtual summit of Mercosur presidents on the 3....
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Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay confront Argentina at a tense Mercosur summitRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The tension in the discussions was such that when Argentina's president, Alberto Fernandez, found himself alone, he visibly offended and retorted to the rest of his partners: "If we have become a burden I am sorry, the easiest thing to do is to get off the boat". Brazil, Ur....
In-depth: Bolivia suffers from more than a century of political and social instabilityRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bolivia began the 20th century with the defeat of several wars that ended with the loss of much of its territory - and its access to the sea - to Brazil and Chile. Between 1932 and 1935, in the Chaco War, Paraguay stripped Bolivia of another 450,000 square kilometers approxi....
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Paraguay and Chile continue to be the South American countries with the lowest indebtednessRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Paraguay’s indebtedness at the end of January reached US$12.79 billion, which represents 35.2% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and if we look at the level of South American countries, it is the lowest in the region in nominal terms. Despite the fact that las....
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Paraguay imposes a new quarantine until Easter to stop the spread of Covid-19RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Government of Paraguay has issued this Wednesday, March 24th, a decree that establishes a new quarantine in the country from this Saturday until April 4th, Easter day, to prevent further spread of Covid-19. "During the validity of these measures all inhabitants must rema....
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Paraguay expels six members of major Brazilian criminal groupRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Weslley Neres Dos Santos, alias "Bebé," who posed as a university student, was handed over along with the rest of the Brazilians to authorities in the neighboring country across the border at Pedro Juan Caballero, capital of the Amambay department. The expellees were arrest....
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Argentina remained largest tourist source for Brazil in 2019RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - During 2019, Brazil received 6.3 million foreign visitors, a 4% drop compared to 2018. Argentina led as the main country of origin, with 1.95 million tourists, or 30.8% of the inbound tourists. It was followed by the United States with 590,500 and Paraguay with 406,500 touri....
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Non-relationship between Paraguay and China is sneaking into the vaccine raceRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Representatives of the Paraguay-China Chamber of Commerce told some local media that they informed the Ministry of Health of China's willingness for Paraguay to buy 14 million Sinovac vaccines through private Paraguayan firms. According to these spokespersons, the lack of re....
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Peasants announce marches to demand resignation of Paraguay's presidentRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Agricultural organizations announced this Monday, March 22nd, that they will mobilize this week in Asunción to demand the resignation of the president, Mario Abdo Benitez, and the vice president, Hugo Velazquez, due to the "ineptitude and corruption" of the government in th....
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Analysis: Rise in coronavirus cases in Paraguay precipitates political crisisRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In early March, Elena had to take her diabetic father with symptoms of covid-19 to a public hospital. She had to rule out the private clinic, as she wished, because prior to the hospitalization they asked for a deposit of 30 million guaranies to enter, about 4,900 dollars. "....
Paraguay will resort to the Armed Forces to set up hospital bedsRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Paraguayan Ministry of Health announced on Friday that it is trying with the Ministry of Defense to set up beds in a military center and to have health personnel from the Armed Forces, in view of the total occupation of hospitals due to the cases of coronavirus, which ex....
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Three Argentines were arrested in Paraguay when they tried to board a plane with fake PCR testsRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Three Argentines were arrested at Silvio Pettirossi airport, in Asuncion, Paraguay, after an airline employee of the flight they had to board detected that the negative tests for coronavirus were false PCRs and informed the local Ministry of Health. According to the protocol....
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Analysis: Twenty years on, EU turns cold on Mercosur trade dealRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - As the European Union looks forward to a fresh start with the United States under a new president, it is riddled with doubts over another transatlantic relationship. A trade pact struck in 2019 with the Mercosur bloc of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay after two decad....
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Brazil says Paraguay will be #1 priority for vaccine cooperationRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo has prioritized political ally Paraguay among the countries that should cooperate internationally in vaccine efforts. The Foreign Minister said that Paraguay will be Brazil's top priority. The statement was made on Wednesday, March 17th, at t....
Paraguay is the new Brazil: Coronavirus infections continue to soar amid collapsing health systemRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay's health ministry has declared a red alert as coronavirus infections continue to soar, demonstrators continue to demand change and the health system increasingly comes under strain. Authorities are concerned that poor compliance with hygiene measures could cause the....
Paraguay's Minister of Health resigns amid health system collapse due to Covid-19 pandemicRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In full health system collapse due to the exponential growth of Covid-19 infections and deaths, and faced with criticism and calls for his resignation, Paraguay's Minister of Health stepped down on Friday, March 5th. Julio Mazzoleni was in full dispute with the opposition in....
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Angela Molina's Latest Film, 'Charlotte,' Snagged by FilmSharks (EXCLUSIVE)Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks Int'l has scooped up worldwide rights to Paraguayan filmmaker Simon Franco's "Charlotte," a dramedy starring the grande dame of Spanish cinema, Angela Molina. "Charlotte" is produced by Franco's Paraguay-based Lemon Cine, along with Argentina's Pelicano Cine and FAM Con....
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Agriculture and livestock saved Paraguay during pandemicRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to ex-Minister of Finance Santiago Peña, the country's development is strongly linked to agribusiness and the best example of this was 2020, when "we experienced the pandemic situation, a total shutdown for a long time, and what saved Paraguay, what allowed the c....
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Paraguay once again has a new record peak of daily cases in just over a weekRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay this Friday, February 26th, registered a new record of daily infections of Covid-19, with a total of 1,414 positive cases, reported the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare. With this, the total number of confirmed since the first case was detected in March ....
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There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved peopleThe cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year – seen in both the racial disparities of the pandemic and widespread protests over police brutality.Yet whenever calls for reparations are made – as they are again now – op....
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Paraguay registers unprecedented increase in coronavirus infectionsRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay currently registers a never before seen peak of community infections of Covid-19, when observing a higher average of 1,000 cases per day, according to an official report from the Ministry of Health released this Wednesday, February 24th. Recently, the South American....
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Strategic new bridge linking Paraguay's capital Asuncion with the western hinterland faces issuesRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Controversy surrounds the project to build a new bridge connecting Paraguay's capital, Asuncion, with its western hinterland Chaco'I in the 'Presidente Hayes Departement' and spanning the Paraguay River. A number of irregularities have surfaced with regard to the project. Bu....
Paraguay invests in space capability and is launching its first satellite Guaranisat-1RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay, attempting to start its own space exploration program, will launch its first satellite, Guaranisat-1, today from the United States' Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The satellite was developed in collaboration with the Paraguayan Space Agency (AEP) and the Kyus....
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Paraguay's 2nd division soccer players improvise to surviveParaguay's second division footballers are working as gardeners, builders and egg salesmen to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of them haven't been paid by their clubs for more than a year.....
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Seven dead as Air Force plane crashes in Paraguay – ReportsRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Seven people have been killed and one severely injured as a result of a plane crash in Paraguay, the ABC Color newspaper reported on Tuesday, February 9th, adding that the aircraft belonged to the country's air force. According to the media outlet, the cause of the accident ....
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Escaped Caimans Captured After Scaring Paraguayan TownsfolkRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Seven caimans escaped an overflowing lagoon in Paraguay, invaded a nearby town center and terrified residents for hours before being captured in a risky operation by volunteer firefighters, officials told AFP Thursday, January 28th. The toothy reptilians, between 1.5 and two....
