Paraguay's Minister of Economy, Óscar Lovera, stated that a slowdown in tax revenues since October 2025 has caused delays in payments to suppliers for the Ministries of Public Works and Health. He attributed the crisis to the appreciation of the guarani against the dollar and external factors, but assured that structural spending has not been affected and that revenues have been recovering since March.
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The president of the Paraguay Importers Center (CIP), Iván Dumot, stated that the fall of the dollar has already led to price reductions in some sectors, but that the impact on the basic basket is limited due to the predominance of domestic products in the consumption of lower-income families.