Paraguay Archives

Paraguay has two official languages: Spanish and Guarani -- an indigenous language spoken by 87 percent of the population

World

Paraguay: narcotics hub wracked by corruption

Paraguay, which holds a presidential election on Sunday, is a small landlocked nation in South America where corruption and drug trafficking are rampant. It...

AFPApril 28, 2023

Polls show Santiago Pena (L) and Efrain Alegre neck-and-neck ahead of presidential elections in Paraguay on Sunday

World

Socially conservative rivals vie for Catholic Paraguay’s top job

A right-wing economist and a center-left lawyer, both social conservatives, will face off Sunday in Paraguay’s most closely-run presidential election in many years. Santiago Pena,...

AFPApril 28, 2023

Paraguay holds general and presidential elections on April 30, 2023 -- Santiago Pena is the ruling party's presidential candidate

World

Paraguay gears up for tight presidential election

Paraguayans go the polls Sunday for the South American country’s closest presidential race in many years, with a center-leftist coalition hoping to end an...

AFPApril 27, 2023

Business

Q&A: Paraguayan family-owned company’s environmental governance journey

Between 2021 and 2022 we also invested more than 500.000 dollars in new projects, ranging from more efficient water treatments to technology, such as...

Dr. Tim SandleDecember 1, 2022

Paraguay Vice-President Hugo Velazquez, pictured in 2017, has been accused by the US of corruption over an alleged bribe paid to a government official to supress an investigation that could cost him financially

World

Paraguay vice president resigns after US sanctions

Paraguay’s Vice President Hugo Velazquez announced his resignation Friday and pulled out of the running for next year’s presidential election after he was sanctioned...

AFPAugust 12, 2022

Former Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes takes pictures with supporters in Asuncion on November 19, 2019

World

US slaps ban on former Paraguay leader over corruption

The United States on Friday slapped a travel ban on Paraguay’s former president Horacio Cartes, accusing the businessman turned politician of corruption and links...

AFPJuly 22, 2022

From left to right, presidents Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay, Mario Abdo Benitez of Paraguay and Alberto Fernandez of Argentina

World

Uruguay says pursuing China trade deal with or without Mercosur partners

Uruguay insisted on Thursday that it would pursue a free trade deal with China with or without its partners in the South American Mercosur...

AFPJuly 21, 2022

Mercosur exports to Singapore in 2021 amounted to $5.9 billion, and imports $1.2 billion

World

Mercosur trade bloc denies Zelensky request to address summit

South America’s Mercosur trade bloc has declined a request by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address its upcoming summit, host Paraguay said on Wednesday....

AFPJuly 20, 2022