Terrorist organizations and illicit actors working together poses a new major risk to Western Hemispheric security. Modernization and the conversion of ancient traditional modus operandi hybridize to enable certain criminalities’…
By Isabela Fernandez; originally published at International Policy Digest - Just how widespread is corruption in Latin America? A recent Transparency International study lays bare the region’s worrying trend, with most countries…
Migration is a deeply entrenched concept within Latin America. Whether it is people crossing a border to establish themselves in a foreign land or a State receiving an influx of…
By Maureen Gueunet; cross-posted from Open City Documentaries - This year’s Open City Documentary Festival will present the UK premiere of Paz Encina’s new feature film, the documentary Memory Exercises. The…
(Cross-posted article by Facundo Barbaro; Young Diplomats) - The latest elections and polls led the world to believe that the depleted and drifting leftist governments of the region were about to…
By Vincent Lofaso - In South America, the geopolitical prospects differ between countries. Some nations will focus on deterring criminal syndications and settle peace deals with rebel forces while others…
Venezuela’s assuming of the Mercosur pro-tempore presidency has not only tested the regional economic bloc’s crisis-era resilience, but furthermore right and left-wing governmental relations - public and private. The re-questioning…
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 65/209 declares August 30th the International Day of the Disappeared. Yet for the past century, Latin America has been no foreigner to forced disappearances…
February 2016 wasn’t the ideal time to be off to South America for seven months. The papers were full of scare stories about the dreaded Zika virus, and friends seemed…
A fundamental question of the role of Latin American leadership is more pivotal than ever. Highly popular ex-union leader Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva stopped being Brazilian president in 2010. And yet Lula…
I had been promised an unforgettable experience and was eagerly looking forward to helping make chipa, a Paraguayan cheese-flavoured bread roll unlike anything I had ever tasted. While chipa is…
The Centers for Disease Control and Disease Prevention (CDC) have issued a warning to travelers - particularly pregnant women - to avoid 14 countries and territories in the Caribbean and…
The events of September 11, 2001 stimulated foreign policy changes that affected the entire planet. The United States’ post-World War II global influence has not only held strong into the…
Paraguay: Literature in Exile Paraguay is often sidelined politically, economically and culturally by her Latin American neighbours, and by the rest of the world. But 25 years after the fall…
He had his mother flogged when she was seventy years old, hundreds of his officers were killed at his command, he led his country into a war which, by some…
Overwhelming number of protest votes in PLRA internal elections; campesinos charged for Curuguaty massacre; a powerful storm hits the capital
Inter-American Commission of Human Rights urges for investigation into death of Vidal Vega; internal elections for the Colorado party fail to attract voters; national footballer’s death sparks controversy
Social unrest as citizens demand to know what happened in Curuguaty; Franco snubs Unasur representative; gubernatorial hopeful found dead
1,700kg of cocaine seized near Brazil border; suspected members of EPP captured; Unasur to publish a report on Paraguay on 29 November
Chilean ambassador to return to Asunción; plans announced for first Indigenous language institute in region; Uruguay to assume Paraguayan role at Mercosur summit; 71% of Chaco residents without food
President Franco ‘will not invite Unasur’ to monitor 2013 elections; public protests over repatriation of ex dictator’s remains; government will protest new Argentinian customs controls
OAS to send special envoy for 2013 elections; Panama to take over Paraguay’s diplomatic duties in Venezuela; Carperos return to Campos Morombí; Artists protest against Secretary of Culture
Paraguay’s rift with Venezuela continues; abandoned railway is brought back to life in Sapucai; Paraguay will not attend Ibero-American Summit
Mario Ferreiro breaks from Frente Guasú; Evo Morales denies ‘good relationship’ with Franco; plans to improve conditions in notorious Tacumbú prison
PLRA name Efraín Alegre’s running mate for 2013 election; Paraguay will ‘not be affected by world economic crisis’; explosion in Concepción linked to EPP; Venezuelans in Paraguay can’t vote in…