In pictures – Christians celebrate Palm Sunday
AP Christians have celebrated Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Penitents of the Estrella brotherhood walk in procession across the so-called Triana bridge during Holy Week in Seville, Spain, on Sunday, 13th April, 2025. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. PICTURE: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti. Catholics take part […]
Paraguay’s disappeared: A dictator’s shadow is a roadblock for justice, but a few keep up the fight
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports from on how the legacy of General Alfredo Stroessner remains a roadblock to finding the missing…
Venezuela, Paraguay break relations over Pena’s support for opposition; Gonzalez meets with Biden
Caracas, Venezuela/Asuncion, Paraguay Reuters Venezuela broke off diplomatic relations with Paraguay on Monday, with Paraguay expelling Venezuela’s diplomats in the country in return, a day after Paraguayan President Santiago Pena expressed support for Venezuela’s opposition. Paraguay’s President Santiago Pena speaks during an interview with Reuters, in Asuncion, Paraguay, on 21st August, 2024. PICTURE: Reuters/Cesar Olmedo/File […]
Record dengue outbreak in Americas kills 7,700 this year, PAHO says
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Reported cases of dengue in the Americas nearly tripled to a record high of over 12.6 million this year, including 21,000 severe cases and over 7,700 deaths, the Pan American Health Organization said on Tuesday. This year’s outbreak of dengue, the most common mosquito-borne disease worldwide, is the biggest since records […]
Postcards: Paraguay’s drying river stokes water tensions between fishers and farmers
DANIELA DESANTIS and CESAR OLMEDO, of Reuters, report…
Argentina’s 300 per cent inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town
Nanawa, Paraguay Reuters Paraguayan shoppers used to flock in their droves to the border town of Nanawa to buy cheap imports from Argentina, where the weak peso currency for years kept relative prices low for fuel, medicine and groceries smuggled in across the frontier. Now Nanawa is a ghost town, with prices of the contraband […]
Surging dengue cases in Americas cause alarm as potentially worst-ever season looms
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Dengue cases in the Americas rose in the first three months of this year by three times the number of infections reported in the same period last year, the head of the Pan American Health Organization said on Thursday. Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay are the countries hardest hit by dengue in […]
New lives: Russian war exiles bring banyas and blinis to Buenos Aires
LUCINDA ELLIOTT and MIGUEL LO BIANCO, of Reuters, report on the wave of migrants who have left Russia for Latin American nations after the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine…
El Nino rains wipe out Paraguay neighbourhoods, with more to come
Ayolas, Paraguay Reuters Heavy rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon has sent hundreds to shelters in the town of Ayolas in southern Paraguay, with residents bracing for more flooding on the way. At least five neighbourhoods in the town, about 300 kilometres from capital Asuncion, were left under water after storms last week […]
Climate change drove deadly winter heat wave in South America, study says
Sao Paulo, Brazil Reuters Global warming was the main driver of the heat wave that scorched South America for most of August and September and raised temperatures by as much as 4.3 degrees Celsius, according to a study published on Tuesday. Temperatures soared above 40 degrees Celsius across large parts of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and […]