Full Coverage: Paraguay

09.11.2009 The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef.

30.04.2008 The indigenous Ayoreo peoples of Bolivia and Paraguay are increasingly forced out of the wilderness by ecological destruction only to confront a new brand of isolation from their ancestral way of life.

22.04.2008 WASHINGTON, D.C., April 22 (OneWorld) - Paraguayans are celebrating the Sunday win of presidential opposition candidate and progressive former bishop Fernando Lugo.

18.04.2008 ASUNCION, Apr 17 (IPS) - An indigenous woman has an excellent chance of winning a seat in Congress for the first time in the history of Paraguay, in Sunday's general elections.

10.04.2008 ASUNCION, Apr 10 (IPS) - For the first time in Paraguayan history, a woman is running for president in the elections on Apr. 20, as the candidate of the Colorado Party, which has governed this country continuously for 61 years.

20.03.2008 An article comparing Paraguayan Indians to cancer and describing them as 'Neolithic', 'out-of-date' and 'filthy' is named as the most racist article in the mainstream media published in the last year. The award marks UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March.

25.02.2008 After 61 years in power, Paraguay's conservative, U.S.-backed government "still permeates every inch of Paraguayan society" -- but the status quo may change as a new right-wing faction emerges within the party ahead of the April elections.

25.10.2007 A zone on the frontiers of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay has been portrayed by the U.S. media and government as a "hotbed" "teeming with Islamic extremists and their sympathizers," but a group of reporters found these claims inaccurate as they traveled into the region.

26.05.2007 ASUNCION, May 25 (IPS) - Esperanza Santos Aranda, who lives in a poor neighbourhood in the Paraguayan capital, used to sell vegetables at a precarious market stall. But thanks to a 60-dollar loan, she was able to open up her own small clothes-selling business.

04.08.2006 The Pentagon seems to have understood the risks posed to the continuity of United States dominance by social movements in Latin America. The option of militarizing societies serves two aims : it guarantees control of natural resources and protects governments so as to block social movements' progress.

21.07.2006 La Secretaría Operativa de la CLOC CONO SUR informa a todas las organizaciones de la CLOC - VIA CAMPESINA, a la opinión publica nacional e internacional y al mismo tiempo condena y repudia otra sangrienta represión ocurrida esta mañana (19 de julio) a partir de las 10:30

09.08.2005 The U.S. military is conducting secretive operations in Paraguay and reportedly building a new base there. Human rights groups and military analysts in the region believe trouble is brewing. However, the U.S. embassy in Paraguay denies the base exists and describes the military activity as routine.

04.08.2005 ASUNCION, Aug 3 (IPS) - Despite the government's continued denials, analysts and activists have raised the alarm over the possible installation of a U.S. military base in Paraguay, especially after Congress granted permission for U.S. armed forces contingents to remain in the country for 18 months at a time.

16.12.2004 An indigenous community in Paraguay has been evicted from land they've been inhabiting since 1909 to accomodate a soybean farming cooperative, reports the Missionary Service News Agency.

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Violence erupted as police removed a group of farmers occupying land in the department of San Pedro, Paraguay, earlier this month. A national strike has been called for November 17th that is expected to cut off traffic routes and movement in the whole country, and military units have been deployed to protect large agribusinesses landholders, reports the Independent Media Center.

10.06.2004 Os correligionários do general paraguaio, Lino Oviedo, se reuniram hoje com o presidente Nicanor Duarte Frutos, para pedir garantias para o retorno do general e líder do Partido União Nacional de Cidadãos Éticos, Unace. Isto se deu após o anúncio do general que deseja retornar a seu país no dia 28 de junho.

16.04.2004 O chanceler mexicano Luis Ernesto Derbez está deixando claro que seu país quer voltar os olhos ao Mercosul. Depois de dez anos de livre comércio com os Estados Unidos, o México planeja integrar-se plenamente ao Mercosul, o bloco econômico formado pela Argentina, Brasil, Paraguai e Uruguai.

10.03.2004 A group of previously uncontacted Ayoreo Indians has emerged from the forests of Paraguay, under pressure from deforestation all around them. The 17 people (five men, seven women and five children) are in excellent health, but acutely short of water.

10.03.2004 A tribal community reduced to 17 members has made its first contact with the outside, asking for help to stop Paraguayan ranchers and farmers from taking over their land and water. "Please do not touch the forest, because it gives us life. Please stop the bulldozers," was the plea of the Ayoreo group.

08.08.2003 On the eve of World Indigenous Day, Survival International warns that indigenous groups in Botswana, India, and Paraguay face extinction as a result of growing exploration for natural resources on their historic lands.