Alberdi celebrated its 96th anniversary with a civic, student and military parade as border trade faces the effects of the Argentine peso’s devaluation and the city benefits from new road connections since 2021. With Argentine purchasing power declining, improved road access could redirect commerce toward Paraguayan customers.
Pilar
Pytagua coverage mentioning Pilar.
The Palacio Ingrid, a historic jewel of Asunción, has been fully restored after a lengthy administrative process and will be transformed into an events center.
The Paraguayan government has presented a bill to Congress to secure a $286 million loan from Japan to build the Southwest Corridor, a nearly 200-kilometer road project in the south of the country. The announcement has sparked debate over public debt priorities amid a crisis involving shortages of medicines.
The Japanese dredge DRM-5 "Paraguay", donated by the government of Japan, has arrived in Paraguay to ensure the navigability of the waterway, with its official christening ceremony scheduled for the visit of Crown Prince Akishino on August 19.
Paraguayan producers reduced the wheat cultivation area in 2026 in the regions of Alto Paraná, Itapúa, Caaguazú, and San Pedro due to low profitability, high production costs, and competition with soybeans and corn.
The construction of an international bridge between Humaitá, in the department of Ñeembucú, Paraguay, and Las Palmas, in the Argentine province of Chaco, is moving forward as a physical integration initiative with the potential to boost trade, logistics, and tourism between the two countries.
Indert transferred a three-hectare plot of land to the Ñeembucú Governorship for the construction of a recreational complex in Pilar, with an investment of US$5 million.