Municipalidad de Asunción

The Ministry of Economy and Finance transferred more than G. 2.33 trillion to Paraguayan departments and municipalities during the first eight months of 2026. A spreadsheet lists no transfers for Asunción and five other municipalities, but does not itself detail the individual reason in each case.

Asunción bondholders will decide on September 16 whether to seek legal action if the municipality does not prove that it paid the G. 41.101 billion promised for the previous day, while accumulated debt and unfinished drainage works expose the administration’s financial crisis.

Soledad Núñez presented five strategies to reorganize Asunción City Hall, focusing on fighting corruption, cleanliness, urban planning, recovering municipal spaces and assets, professionalizing employees and balancing the finances, with the capital’s 500th anniversary as the target.

The Caja de Jubilaciones y Pensiones del Personal Municipal (CJPPM), known locally as the Caja Municipal, is facing a crisis attributed to poor administration, delayed municipal transfers and limited state action, while 2,503 retirees have received benefits in installments since 2023.

A study involving the Market 4 Directorate, the Municipality of Asunción and engineering students from Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic University (UC) proposes turning one lane of Rodríguez de Francia Avenue, in front of the market, into a protected pedestrian area, while organizing loading and unloading and regularizing more than 100 sales points.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office is conducting a forensic examination at Copaco to investigate the alleged diversion of more than 1.1 billion guaraníes through fictitious payments to the Municipality of Asunción and transfers to personal accounts.

Five people have been formally charged over their alleged participation in using asphalt, machinery, trucks and municipal employees to pave private property. Criminal responsibility has not been established.

Alfredo Benítez remains director of Administrative Management at Paraguay’s postal service while awaiting a hearing on the conditional suspension of proceedings in which he is accused of falsifying notices in 19 enforcement lawsuits. The measure would include G. 100 million in restitution and avoid an oral trial without amounting to an acquittal.

Lambaré city government notified families living along the Lambaré Stream to leave the area as a precaution, citing risks of flooding, overflows, landslides and erosion with El Niño arriving and severe rain forecast, while residents are calling for permanent water-management works.

Asunción Mayor Luis Bello replaced a director convicted of corruption in less than a day after a union ultimatum threatening to halt garbage collection and political pressure.

Asunción Mayor Luis Bello appointed Víctor Basualdo, convicted of breach of trust and criminal association in a scheme to divert public funds, as director of Urban Services, prompting a motion of censure from the Municipal Board.

Urban planner describes being a pedestrian in Asunción as a high-risk act of audacity due to car-centric infrastructure, inadequate sidewalks, and lack of traffic education.

Asunción celebrated its 489th anniversary with traditional festivities and a civic-military parade, while the electoral scene for the mayoralty and statements from authorities on security and municipal finances formed the backdrop of the celebrations.

A criminal complaint filed by a city councilor and a lawyer alleges that the fuel diversion scheme known as the 'asphalt mafia' persists in the Asunción Municipality with new methods, even after an administrative intervention.

Asunción Municipality prohibits cutting trees on private properties without authorization, under penalty of fine according to Ordinance 169/2025, which classifies the infraction as a very serious offense.

Twenty-five organizations launched the Network for the Right to the City to transform Asunción, which faces historical neglect of plazas, loss of green areas, flooding, and an inefficient transportation system, also denouncing a technical, financial, and moral crisis in the municipality.

The Municipality of Asunción is preparing two large plots of land, not squares or avenues, to serve as temporary refuge for thousands of families who may be affected by flooding of the Paraguay River caused by the El Niño phenomenon.

Councilor Álvaro Grau denounces irregular cleaning contracts in the administration of Luis Bello, criticizes the slowness of the Public Prosecutor's Office in investigating embezzlement from the previous administration of Nenecho Rodríguez, and reports judicial progress in the "golden detergent" case.

The administration of Mayor Luis Bello faces criticism in the City Council over plans to rent trucks and the lack of public transport, while the municipality announces free festivities for Asunción's 489th anniversary.

Horacio Cartes suggested that Camilo Pérez consider charging vehicles entering Asunción. Soledad Núñez rejected the idea and attributed the municipal crisis to corruption and the alleged diversion of funds under the previous administration.

Asunción Municipality approved updated plans for Club Olimpia's new stadium, a roughly US$ 80 million project designed for about 46,000 spectators and scheduled to open in 2029.

Residents of the Mbocayaty neighborhood in Asunción are denouncing the halt in the land titling processes by the Municipalidad de Asunción and pressure from Grupo Vázquez to buy their properties, leading city councilors to request official information.

The Comptroller General's Office of Paraguay has concluded that the asset growth of the former mayor of Asunción, Óscar "Nenecho" Rodríguez, is justified by his legal income, despite his resignation amid corruption scandals and being charged with criminal association.

Wholesale merchants at the Mercado de Abasto in Asunción are denouncing the persistence of a structure of corruption, extortion, and severe insecurity, threatening protests if five accused employees are not removed.