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Alto Paraná is home to 160 of Paraguay’s 324 maquila companies and receives about 90% of business inquiries from Brazil, while the 17th Expo Paraguay Brasil seeks to attract more than US$600 million in investment through productive integration between the two countries.
ravelers entering Paraguay currently have a USD 1,000 allowance when arriving by air or river and USD 300 when entering by land. Purchases made at an arrival duty-free shop receive an additional allowance of up to USD 500. Value is only part of the customs assessment: the quantity, nature and assortment of goods can indicate a commercial import even below the allowance. Under DNIT’s current instruction, monetary instruments totaling USD 10,000 or more must be declared through eDAV.
Miguel Prieto’s defense said at the Tía Chela trial that it will present suppliers, records and other documents to prove the delivery of 25,000 food kits during the pandemic, while challenging the alleged loss of G. 2.13 billion and the corruption charges.
Paraguay will host the Ibero-American Country Brand Forum for the first time in November, with 17 delegations and a program expected to include talks on global brands, training sessions, business meetings and business networking activities, while the government announced 43 new licenses and nine renewals, bringing the current total to more than 150 licensed companies, including new and previously licensed businesses.
MIGRAMÓVIL is planning to serve the foreign population at the Amambay Departmental Government in Pedro Juan Caballero from September 21 to 25, 2026, after recording 1,455 residence applications at the Mangaré Cultural Center in Ciudad del Este.
Paraguay’s Public Prosecutor’s Office charged Capitán Bado judge Cristhian Ariel Sánchez Zaracho with allegedly attempting to launder assets by ordering the auction of two properties linked to the Luiz Carlos da Rocha, known as Cabeça Branca, case despite active criminal restrictions.
Paraguay is undergoing a clear demographic transition: according to INE, the total fertility rate is 1.9 children per woman in 2026, life expectancy is rising and the share of older people is increasing. At the same time, Paraguay remains a relatively young country and its population is still growing. There are striking differences between current figures from Paraguay's INE and the UN World Population Prospects. INE puts the 2026 population at about 6.46 million, with a median age of 29.4 and 8.9% aged 65 or older; the UN series gives about 7.01 million people for 2025, a median age of 28 and 6.7% aged 65+. The differences result from separate statistical and projection systems, but both point toward the same broad trend: Paraguay is ageing, gradually rather than suddenly.
Debate over Paraguay’s 2027 social budget questioned the results of programs such as Tekoporã and Tenonderã and the operation of Hambre Cero, whose contracts totaled G. 3.8 trillion for Comepar and Ladero Paraguayo, while lawmakers demanded oversight of school time and the use of funds.
The government and Sinamed reached an agreement providing for increases of up to G. 2 million per employment relationship, 1,500 new appointments in 2027 and US$260 million for medicines and supplies in next year’s budget, but suspending the strike still depends on a medical assembly.
Traveler assistance on international bus journeys through South America should cover every country on the route, medical transport, border delays, missed connections and baggage problems, with accessible support channels even without internet.
Paraguay’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged five people and sought pretrial detention for four current or former members of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) and Lalo Gomes’s niece, who are suspected of leaking information about anti-drug operations to benefit the former lawmaker’s family. The case also involves the seizure of 4.255 kilograms of cocaine bound for Brazil and questions over the transfer of the agency’s telephone-interception system.
A Paraguayan woman was among six people killed when an illegally built structure under construction collapsed in São Paulo, while another operation arrested seven people and seized more than a ton of marijuana allegedly brought from Paraguay into Paraná.
Paraguay and Bolivia approved the last pending section in La Paz and completed the demarcation of their approximately 742-kilometer common border, which will be documented and subject to periodic inspection and maintenance.
Horacio Cartes named Juan Carlos Baruja as Pedro Alliana’s running mate for 2028, while the vice president postponed the decision until after the municipal elections; in the same political landscape, Colorado Añetete declared support for Camilo Pérez and Hugo Ramírez, and the government and doctors reached a preliminary pay agreement amid a strike.
A Paraguayan birth certificate confirms a person's birth record in the Civil Registry and is required for many official and private procedures. People with an Electronic Identity can obtain their own certificate online through Portal Paraguay as an electronically signed PDF. It is valid for one year and can be used electronically inside Paraguay; use abroad requires additional apostille or legalization steps.
Paraguayan shoe manufacturers protested in Ypacaraí against the entry of Chinese products and asked DNIT to investigate goods brought from Iquique, Chile.
Paraguayan Deputy Minister Saúl Recalde apologized after being filmed holding doctor Freddy Hernán Cantero by the neck at the Ministry of Health and placed his position at the minister’s disposal.
An audit by the Comptroller General's Office found that IPS has no internal protocols to recover principal and interest invested in banks in arrears, insolvency or bankruptcy, even though savings deposit certificates account for 46.62% of its portfolio, and recommended specific prevention, monitoring and investment-recovery measures.
According to reports by Última Hora and El Nacional, Paraguay’s Criminal Appeals Court rejected the defense appeals and upheld the convictions of three former police officers for torturing political prisoners between 1976 and 1978. Fortunato Laspina and Eusebio Torres received 25 years, while Manuel Alcaraz received 20 years.
Senator Rafael Filizzola said the opposition would block any possible impeachment of independent Supreme Court justices, while defending judicial reforms based on institutional criteria and concrete grounds.
Paraguay’s Central Administration executed ₲46 trillion between January and August 2026, with spending concentrated on salaries, transfers, social programs and health, which received ₲2.1 trillion to settle pharmaceutical obligations and maintain the supply of medicines and medical supplies.
An actuarial projection by IPS indicates that the ratio of contributors to retirees will fall from 9.6 to about three by 2050, while reserves would begin to be used in 2036 and could be exhausted around 2046 without corrective measures.
The trials of former minister Arnaldo Giuzzio, accused of aggravated passive bribery, and former Ciudad del Este mayor Miguel Prieto, accused of alleged breach of trust in the purchase of food baskets, have resumed in Paraguay.
Asunción’s Codeni centralizes technical, legal, psychological and protective assistance for children and adolescents through 11 centers and hotlines, operating Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., with complaints strictly anonymous and confidential by law.