Paraguay News

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On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I extend my best wishes to the people of Paraguay as they celebrate 202 years of independence on May 15.

Money changers and car parkers, paperboys, vendors of fruit juice and handicrafts, soccer articles and herbs for the popular drink called "terere," populate the streets of Asuncion and represent the informal economy that allows hundreds of thousands of families to survive.

ASUNCION, Paraguay - Paraguay's president-elect Horacio Cartes will be able to control Congress when he begins his five-year mandate in August.

Lesbian workers take part in the traditional May Day rally on May 1 in Asuncion, Paraguay.

The priest faltered a bit as he climbed the stairs to the museum, housed in an attic above a church in ItapA©, Paraguay, a town founded as a Franciscan mission in 1672.

Paraguay's April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy "tobacco magnate," rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of laundering drug money, tax evasion and other crimes, raises the specter of "state capture" by powerful drug cartels linked to US intelligence agencies.

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, has sent a cable of congratulations to Horacio Cartes, on his victory in Paraguay's presidential election earlier on Sunday.

"This is a victory for the Republic of Paraguay because all Paraguayans have won, the party won, but the Republic of Paraguay is the winner," Cartes, of the Colorado Party, told supporters Sunday night.

Why is 2013 the year to get to Asuncin , Paraguay's, lovely, riverfront capital? Because this landlocked tropical nation sandwiched between Boliva, Brazil and Argentina is modernizing at warp speed.

By Peter Tase Caribbean News Now contributor PANAMA CITY, Panama -- In 2013, Panama and Paraguay are celebrating twenty years of bilateral cooperation, which has been significantly strengthened and intensified, especially in the last five years.

Paraguayans voted on Sunday in a presidential election that could return the center-right Colorado Party to power less than a year after the nation's first leftist leader was impeached.

ASUNCION, Paraguay Paraguayans are voting for president, congress and governors in elections they hope will end the country's isolation from regional groups that challenged last year's impeachment of President Fernando Lugo as a threat to the democracies of neighboring countries.

Paraguay is poised to elect as its new president a conservative candidate from the party that backed strongman Alfredo Stroessner during 35 years of iron rule, returning the executive branch to the wealthy interests that have traditionally dominated this poor South American nation despite the election of a leftist ex-bishop in 2008.

Horacio Cartes leads in the polls for Sunday's presidential elections in Paraguay.