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New Paraguay Leaders Promise More Free Milk
ABC News
Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack clean drinking water.

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Paraguay becomes used car paradise
NEWS.com.au
PARAGUAY has become the main destination in South America for used cars from Japan, the United States and other countries, thanks to new regulations aimed at making it easier to import automobiles so low-income consumers can purchase vehicles.

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Paraguay soy chamber sees record 2012/13 crop
Reuters
ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay will produce a record 9 million tonnes of soybeans this season, an all-time high likely to be repeated in the next crop year as well, officials of the country's exporters chamber told the Reuters Latin America Investment ...

Horacio Cartes, Paraguay's President-Elect Must Immediately Fight Corruption ...
Eurasia Review
Horacio Cartes, Paraguay's president-elect, is expected to begin his term in office in August 15, 2013. In his next five years, Cartes, a wealthy businessman, has to face many challenges and obstacles to secure the nation's path towards sustainable ...


New York Times
German Outpost Born of Racism in 1887 Blends Into Paraguay
New York Times
Published: May 5, 2013. NUEVA GERMANIA, Paraguay — The year was 1887 when two of the best-known German anti-Semites of the time put down stakes here in Paraguay's remote jungle with 14 German families screened for their racial purity.

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Paraguay: 5 alleged members of Brazil's Red Command gang arrested
Infosurhoy
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay – Five alleged members of the Brazilian Comando Vermelho (Red Command) gang were arrested by Paraguayan police on May 21, according to Paraguay's National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD). The suspects, who allegedly are hit ...


New York Times
Boom Times in Paraguay Leave Many Behind
New York Times
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Walk into the headquarters of the central bank of Paraguay, a sprawling seven-story structure surrounded by flowering silk floss trees, and the message is clear: officials proudly display charts showing a dizzying economic boom ...

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New York Times (blog)
Opening Up Paraguay's Landlocked Guairá Region
New York Times (blog)
But the village is also a perfect example of the modest, eclectic (and frugal) charms to be found in its home province of Guairá (pronounced gwa-ee-RAH), a relatively small area of about 1,500 square miles in the south of Paraguay, a landlocked country ...


Latin American Herald Tribune
Paraguay Nabs 5 Members of Brazilian Gang
Latin American Herald Tribune
ASUNCION – Paraguayan police on Tuesday arrested five suspected member of the Brazilian Comando Vermelho (Red Command) gang, Paraguay's Senad counternarcotics agency told Efe. The arrests of the alleged “assassins, thugs and regional chiefs” ...

Paraguay becomes South America's used car paradise
GlobalPost
Asuncion, May 20 (EFE).- Paraguay has become the main destination in South America for used cars from Japan, the United States and other countries, thanks to new regulations aimed at making it easier to import automobiles so low-income consumers can ...

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