The Latest Breaking News from Paraguay

The United States issued sanctions against Paraguay’s former President Horacio Cartes Jara and current Vice President Hugo Velázquez Moreno on Thursday, unveiling explosive accusations that they participated in widespread schemes of corruption and have ties to members of a terrorist organization. Cartes and Velázquez have been involved “in systemic corruption…

The United States is sanctioning Paraguay’s former President Horacio Cartes Jara and current Vice President Hugo Velázquez Moreno, unveiling explosive accusations on Thursday that the two participated in widespread schemes of corruption and have ties to members of a terrorist organization

Paraguay would cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and open relations with China if the opposition wins the election in April, its presidential candidate Efrain Alegre told Reuters, hoping to boost soy and beef exports that are its main economic engines.

A Venezuelan man has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the May murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor in Colombia, Venezuela's interior minister said on Thursday.

In landlocked Paraguay, residents of a farming colony struggle to survive as soy monocultures choke the ecosystem and pesticides poison both the soil and the people.

In Paraguay, beef can offer a way out of poverty and insurance for what life brings. But climate change means beef is becoming an increasingly risky industry for the land.

Yerba mate’s roots in indigenous Guaraní culture are obscured today by a rapidly expanding industry. The drink has similar caffeine content to coffee, but some studies suggest it has a higher antioxidant quotient than green tea.

A summit of the four Mercosur nations has exposed tensions as Uruguay’s eagerness to seek out foreign markets collides with opposition from Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay

Disenchanted with Australia in the 1890s, 500 people travelled to Paraguay in search of a better life, inspired by a radical socialist. But their plans for a tropical utopia, with strict rules about booze and sex, were "bound to fail".