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The carefully organized Paraguay coup

by Nil Nikandrov

28 June 2012

Under Barack Obama’s watch, Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo is the second Latin American leftist president to have been deposed from office in a scenario orchestrated by his political opponents and very close friends of the U.S. Embassy in Asunción. Nil Nikandrov predicts that this pattern of (...)

Paraguay barred from partaking in Mercosur summit

25 June 2012

The countries of South American trading bloc Mercosur have decided to suspend immediately Paraguay’s right to participate in the XLIII Meeting of the Common Market Presidential Summit, the Argentinian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The meeting will be held on Friday, 29 June, in Mendoza (...)

Venezuela and Paraguay Agree to Oil Deal during Chavez’s Visit

by Simone Baribeau

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 December 2005

In a move to diversify the country’s oil customers, Chávez and Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte signed an agreement to enable Paraguay to defer 25 percent of its oil bill to Venezuela in exchange for buying 18,600 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil, over 70 percent of their oil consumption. (...)