Tag: Paraguay

Netanyahu orders closure of Israel’s Paraguay embassy

JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the closure of Israel’s embassy in Paraguay, his office said, after the South American country announced Wednesday it was moving its mission back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to close the Israeli Embassy in Paraguay,” Netanyahu’s office said in a tweet. “Israel views with utmost gravity the extraordinary decision by Paraguay which will cloud bilateral relations.” Paraguay’s announcement […]

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Paraguay to have its first woman president

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AFP) — Paraguay will have a woman president for the first time in its history, at least temporarily, after outgoing leader Horacio Cartes stepped down Monday ahead of schedule. Vice President Alicia Pucheta, 68, will complete Cartes’s mandate after he resigned to become a senator. On August 15, fellow conservative Mario Abdo Benitez, elected in April 22 polls, will begin his five-year term as president of one of Latin America’s poorest countries. The parliament […]

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Paraguay to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

  ASUNCION, Paraguay (AFP) — Paraguay announced Wednesday that it intends to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, becoming the third country to do so after the United States and Guatemala. In a brief statement, Paraguay’s foreign ministry said it had “begun the process of executing the presidential decision.” “We are very pleased by the important decision to move the Paraguayan embassy. This decision by (President Horacio) Cartes is fair and brave,” […]

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Conservative wins Paraguay presidential poll: official

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AFP) — Mario Abdo Benitez, who represents Paraguay’s long-dominant Colorado conservatives, won Sunday’s presidential poll, landing the top job in one of Latin America’s poorest countries, election officials said. The US-educated son of a senior aide to the country’s late dictator, Abdo Benitez won 46.49 percent of the vote, with his centrist opponent Efrain Alegre taking 42.72 percent in a race that was far closer than expected. “The president of the republic is […]

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State of emergency as floods worry Paraguay capital

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AFP) — Authorities in Paraguay’s capital Asuncion on Wednesday declared a state of emergency for a month after the Paraguay River burst its banks, leaving at least 20,000 people homeless. The unseasonal high waters have washed over many poor neighborhoods built along the banks. About a half million people are in the capital, and 2.2 million in its metro area. The South American country has seven million people in total. The capital city’s […]

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Giant water lilies, nagsilitawan sa isang ilog sa Paraguay 

(Eagle News) —  Itinuturing na isang problema ng iba  ang paglitaw ng mga water lily sa ilog. Pero hindi ito ang nangyayari sa Paraguay. Nagmistulang isang tourist spot ang isang ilog doon dahil sa mga water lily. Hindi kasi pangkaraniwan ang sukat ng mga water lily na nagsisulputan doon. Ang giant water lily ay lumilitaw lamang sa nasabing ilog kada apat na taon tuwing summer. Kilala rin ang giant lily sa healing properties nito laban […]

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Paraguay protesters set Congress on fire

ASUNCION, Paraguay (Reuters) — Protesters stormed Paraguay’s Congress building and set it on fire on Friday (March 31) amid violent demonstrations over a secret Senate vote earlier in the day to approve a bill that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election. The Senate voted earlier on Friday during a special session in a closed office in Congress rather than on the Senate floor. Twenty-five lawmakers voted for the measure, two more than […]

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Drought kills Paraguay’s thirsty alligators

GENERAL DIAZ, Paraguay (AFP) — A drought in northern Paraguay has driven thousands of thirsty alligators to crowd around lakes and wells, scaring off cattle from the dwindling water sources, environmentalists and locals say. Parched leathery corpses of the reptiles lie on the cracked earth near the Pilcomayo River where the borders of Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia meet. The Chaco region is suffering its worst drought in 19 years, Public Works Minister Ramon Jimenez Gaona […]

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Argentine economic growth to speed up from 2017, minister says

Argentina’s economy will edge higher this year as the new government lifts interventionist controls, later fuelling growth of about 4.5 percent annually between 2017 and 2019, Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said on Thursday (January 14). “With our numbers we calculate an estimated (economic growth) of between 0.5 percent and 1 percent this year in 2016, but above all with much stronger growth in the second half of the year,” he said, during a news conference […]

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Paraguay officials raid South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL

Paraguayan state prosecutors on Thursday (January 7) raided the headquarters of South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL after a request for cooperation from U.S. justice officials probing corruption inside world soccer, the prosecution office said. CONMEBOL lawyer Cristóbal Cáceres said the raid was linked to the case pending in the United States against former long-time confederation chief Nicolás Leoz, who was indicted for corruption and is facing extradition. Caceres said CONMEBOL was cooperating. “We are following […]

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