Members of a Congressional committee in Paraguay have voted against the expropriation of Indigenous lands and their return to the Yakye Axa community. The vote undermines a binding decision made by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the highest body in the region. Amnesty International has condemned the move as “unacceptable and one that risks [...]
If I told you about a de facto tax haven with a liberal constitution where you can buy land for $25 per acre, where you could have made 25% return on a simple bank account in the last year due to currency appreciation against the dollar, and where you can probably qualify for a second [...]
President Fernando Lugo signed a $30 million agreement last month with the U.S. ambassador to bolster Paraguay’s judiciary, public administration and national police force and reduce endemic corruption and patronage. A former Roman Catholic bishop, Lugo has been in office just nine months, elected on promises that he would end systemic graft and redistribute wealth [...]
A third woman came forward Wednesday claiming Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is the father of her child – a 16-month-old boy she named after Pope John Paul II. The paternity claims have embarrassed the government and put opponents on the attack. But in Paraguay’s macho culture, political analysts say the idea that the former Catholic [...]
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the disappearance and killings of government opponents in the 1970s and 1980s. Minister Sabino Montanaro, who served as interior minister under ex-dictator Alfredo Stroessner, arrived in Asuncion early Friday [...]
