PARAGUAY: UNLEASHING YOUNG GIRLS’ POTENTIAL.
LAB's Claudia Pompa reports on how the Centro Educativo Mbaracayu (CEM), located in the Mbaracayi Forest Biosphere Reserve in north-east Paraguay, educates and trains girls from rural communities to become 'rural and environmental entrepreneurs'.
Paraguay: a working example of communal land
The Mbyju’i Communal Land Association: protector of the common good.
by Andrew Nickson
Origin: The association goes back to the old days when, lacking land of...
PARAGUAY: RURAL LEADER MURDERED
As Paraguay's first election campaign since the overthrow of Fernando Lugo gets under way, an opponent of soya monoculture is murdered
Revisiting Paraguay 2
So the economy's booming? Tell that to the poor, says Jan Rocha in the second of her blog posts.
Ex presos políticos dieron testimonio de la existencia del “sótano oculto”
A tiny underground prison cell has been discovered under the Paraguayan Consulate in Posadas in Argentina
Bulletin 10 February 2010
Chile: new president excludes prominent pinochetistas from cabinet ♦ Latin America unites to help Haiti ♦ Regional energy crisis continues: this time it’s Paraguay ♦ Mexico: highest inflation rate in ten years ♦ Mexico: al
Paraguay and the Soya Invasion
In a powerful radio documentary Gary Northan looks at the destruction of peasant communities caused by soya for biofuels.
Paraguay: The President’s Bank Linked to Tax Haven
Research by ICIJ reveals that Paraguay's new president is head of a secret bank set up in the Cook Islands.
Brasiguaios and Paraguayan politics
This video gives a flavour of the attitudes of prosperous Brazilian soya producers based in Paraguay.
Planned Tapajós industrial waterway — a potential environmental disaster
The Brazilian government has unexpectedly cancelled the large São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam yet, as a timely new study makes clear, immense social and environmental challenges still loom for the Tapajós river valley,