Paraguay

It is estimated that some 10 million people speak it, especially in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia. It is also an official language of the Mercosur trade bloc

The mainland’s ruling Communist Party claims democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and says it has no right to conduct foreign relations

President Santiago Peña took the presidential oath outside the government palace in the capital of Asunción in a ceremony attended by several regional leaders and Taiwan’s Vice President William Lai

William Lai’s trip includes stops in San Francisco and New York City, which Beijing criticized Washington for allowing

The criminal – who is linked to the assassination of a Paraguayan prosecutor, who was murdered during his honeymoon in Colombia – has been evading justice for years, by using fake names and passports

The Uruguayan Prosecutor’s Office has summoned several senior officials to testify over issuance of the documentation to Sebastián Marset, who is a suspect in the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci

Infrastructure specialists – who are meeting in Panama at the request of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) – agree that the region requires both public and private investment to cover its transportation, health and education needs

Julia Ozorio was 13-years-old when she was kidnapped by soldiers. “The first night was horrible,” the victim recalls. During the regime of Alfredo Stroessner, there were at least 12 illegal detention centers where kidnapped girls were raped

The meeting has given Nicolás Maduro a diplomatic boost, but Chile and Uruguay were quick to distance themselves from Lula’s comments about the crisis in the country

Incoming president Santiago Peña, of the Colorado Party, is promising to create half-a-million jobs in a country that has very low tax rates and a high concentration of power in the hands of large landowners

From Mexico to Brazil, cases of dengue have increased. Climate-related factors have provoked an epidemic in the region

Founded in 1887 in the middle of the Paraguyan wilderness, this town of 6,000 inhabitants is today a reminder of the failure of an anti-Semitic racial experiment

Brussels considers Latin American criminal organizations a ‘serious threat’ to the bloc’s internal security as shipments increase and entry routes evolve

Colombian police say the plot was coordinated by a Brazil gang named PCC and that the perpetrator was likely a Venezuelan national. The hitmen were allegedly paid $500,000