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— Augusto Roa Bastos
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Matan a "Chuky" de una puñalada en la espalda en Colón (Video)
Con una certera puñalada en la espalda, fue asesinado ayer José Pilar Reyes Vargas, alias "Chucky", de 38 años, en los predios del mercado público de Colón. Cover video:
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Paraguay must make better use of its competitive advantages to attract investments
According to the portal La Nación, there is talk about Paraguay being an ideal country for investments. In a recent international event in the country, the president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recommended investors choose to locate their operations in Paraguay. Still, the question is what is needed for ...
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Paraguay uses only 49% of its market potential for exports
India, as a strategic country due to the diplomatic relations that it combines as a trading partner, is one of the economies outside the region in which Paraguay has the greatest potential to increase its exports to the said market, but Paraguay is only taking advantage of 49.6%. This is ...
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Ecuador and Paraguay agree to expand their economic and trade relations
The Foreign Ministers of Ecuador, Juan Carlos Holguín, and Paraguay, Julio Arriola, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in New York (USA) to promote the “complementarity of their production chains.” “Foreign Minister @juancaholguin and his Paraguayan counterpart Julio Arriola signed a memorandum of understanding to develop economic and trade relations between ...
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Itaipu Paraguay seeks to manufacture photovoltaic and storage equipment
It is a Technical Cooperation Agreement and an Institutional Cooperation Agreement, which, according to a press release, will develop "joint academic, scientific, technological, social and environmental actions". The Technical Cooperation Agreement aims to develop solutions or equipment that use photovoltaic energy sources for manufacturing at the national level. In this ...
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Paraguay and Argentina link their rail networks
Paraguay and Argentina are reconnecting their rail networks for freight traffic on a 1,200-kilometer line that runs into Uruguay and borders Brazil. The Urquiza and Mesopotámica networks in Argentina, with a gauge of 1435 mm, are a rare example in North and South America where the same gauge connects four ...
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Consumer confidence index grows in Paraguay
The Consumer Confidence Index (ICC) in Paraguay stood at 50.1 in August, an increase compared to July (46.6) and lower than that of the eighth month of 2021 (51.8), the Paraguayan Central Bank reported today. Concerning the ICC components, the Economic Situation Index rose compared to last July but was ...
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Governo registra superávit e inflação pode ficar abaixo de 7% em 2022
Sobre o desemprego, Paulo Guedes afirmou que o Brasil deve fechar 2022 com a taxa de desemprego mais baixa dos últimos 15 anos - por volta de 8%. O ministro disse ...
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Paraguay: Exports reach US$9.4 billion in August 2022
The Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) reported that, as of August 2022, total exports reached a value of US$9.4 billion, being 1.6% lower than the US$9.5 billion achieved in the same month of 2021. The BCP's Foreign Trade report detailed that, as of the eighth month of the year, registered ...
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Brazil’s deflation to benefit Paraguay through foreign currency inflows
Inflation in Brazil decreased by 0.36% in August after a 0.68% drop in July. With this result, year-on-year inflation stood at 8.73%, according to the report of the Central Bank of Brazil. According to analysts, it will impact Paraguay, mainly on foreign currency inflows to the country through family remittances. ...
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Paraguay faces the opportunity of nearshoring
The trade conflict between the U.S. and China, the covid-19 pandemic, and the recent war in Ukraine have reconfigured global value chains (GVCs) and warned of the risks of relying on single suppliers for some products, which can lead to interruptions in the supply of inputs and unexpected cost increases. ...
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Nueva Germania, the racist dream of Nietzsche’s brother-in-law in Paraguay
On June 3, 1889, a man named Bernhard Förster, who had settled a colony of Germans in deep Paraguay, mixed morphine with strychnine in a hotel room in the Paraguayan city of San Bernardino. He was 46 years old and his project of an Aryan colony with which he intended ...
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Paraguayan President vetoes law regulating crypto assets
The president of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, objected on Monday, August 29, to a bill that seeks to recognize cryptocurrency mining as an industrial activity and consequently establish a percentage to fix the consumption rate, among other provisions referring to the commercialization, custody, and administration of crypto assets. Abdo Benítez ...
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FT points to Uruguay as new market for cocaine and speaks of the “burned or dismembered corpses” of the drug trade
By Michael Stott According to the Financial Times, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile are "the new additions" to the international drug trafficking market. An explosion that blew off the facade of two modest houses, killing at least five people. Two bodies hanging from a bridge over a busy road. At least 187 inmates ...
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Most of Paraguay’s public debt is in foreign currency, about 87%
The issuance of bonds in the foreign market is the instrument with the highest incidence over the total of those used. One of Paraguay's primary sources of financing is indebtedness, either through loans or bond issues. The resources are used to cover current expenditures and public investment. As of June, ...
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Chilean airline JetSmart will connect Argentina and Paraguay from November
Chilean low-cost airline JetSmart announced on Wednesday that it would begin operating the route between Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Asunción (Paraguay) from next November, thus constituting another milestone within its growth plan in the region, with the vision of having connected 100 million people by 2028. "This announcement is . ...
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Bolivian capital migrates to tax-free Paraguay
The Bolivian-Paraguayan Binational Chamber of Commerce and Industry informed that at the moment, for every Paraguayan company that wants to invest in Bolivia, nine Bolivian companies seek to enter the Paraguayan market. A simpler tax system where the fiscal liberation for foreign capital translates into the non-payment of . . ...
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Bolivia’s first lithium battery factory begins operations
The first lithium battery factory began operations in Bolivia and will soon start sales in Paraguay and Peru. Quantum Motors, a company specializing in building electric cars in Bolivia, took another step towards the industrialization of lithium from the Uyuni salt flats with the inauguration of Quantum Batteries in Cochabamba. ...
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How the former president of Paraguay became an uncomfortable partner for Chile’s Luksic group
The Chilean conglomerate, belonging to one of the richest families of that country, has two alliances with former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes Jara. CCU, the firm that it controls together with Heineken, and the fuel distributor Enex are in that country together with Cartes, who has been accused by the ...
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Ni los asaltantes lo quieren: entró a robar en un local en Paraguay, le dieron pesos argentinos y los rechazó
La inusual situación, que quedó grabada en una cámara de seguridad, ocurrió en un comercio situado en la zona céntrica de la localidad fronteriza de Encarnación
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Starlink to arrive this year in Argentina and Paraguay
In the last quarter of 2022, Starlink will be arriving in Argentina and Paraguay. Elon Musk's low orbit satellite company announces this on its website, where you can also see in which countries of the region its satellite connectivity service is already available. In Argentina, the company still has several ...