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Paraguay and Argentina signed treaties in Buenos Aires on August 31, 2026, to facilitate the recognition and enforcement of court judgments and coordinate the international return of children and safe returns; the agreements still require domestic approval before taking effect.
Paraguay’s Chamber of Deputies reelected Camilo Benítez with 64 votes and elected Armindo Torres to the leadership of the Comptroller General’s Office, the constitutional body that oversees public resources, assets, budgets, and the State’s economic and financial activities. The opposition criticized the placement of Colorado Party members in both top posts, while Camilo Pérez leads election surveys with incomplete available methodology.
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Gianina García Troche’s habeas corpus petition and upheld her pretrial detention in proceedings over alleged drug trafficking, related crimes and money laundering.
Sami Pajari won Rally del Paraguay 2026 for his third consecutive victory of the WRC season. Diego Domínguez Bejarano won WRC2 at home, while Santiago Peña said he would work to bring more competitions to Paraguay; Pedro Alliana presented Andrea Lafarja as the first Paraguayan woman to reach a World Rally Championship podium.
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.
PLRA deputies held a service day in Córdoba for Paraguayans and proposed integrating the identity and voter-registration systems after the local consulate closed in 2024 for budgetary reasons.
Lawyer and activist María Esther Roa, a member of the Coordinadora de Abogados del Paraguay and Somos Anticorrupción Paraguay, accused the Public Prosecutor’s Office and ministers of Paraguay’s Supreme Court of failures and possible favoritism. She cited officials’ salaries and family ties—including María Verónica Lina Sienra Bertón, Analía Carrillo and relatives of Carolina Llanes—compared corrupt judges with members of the First Capital Command (PCC), and advocated structural reform with more resources and protection for investigators.
The Court of Appeals upheld the rejection of Luis Carlos Benítez Aguilar’s request for access to the source code and hashes of voting machines for Paraguay’s municipal elections on October 4, 2026, citing contractual and intellectual-property limitations.
The TSJE conducted a nationwide TREP simulation on August 28, while Villarrica separately tested the system at its 19 polling locations; sources differ over whether the schedule ended on August 29 or 30.
Paraguayan courts have definitively confiscated Darío Messer’s assets, including companies, real estate, vehicles, livestock and accounts, while prosecutors investigate seven offices in Hernandarias transferred to Banco Atlas through a trust.
Paraguay's Senate approved National Evangelical Church Day for the last Sunday of October, without creating a public holiday or requiring the date to be added to the school calendar. IELPA and IERP challenge the name and historical rationale; the bill will still be reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies.
A doctors’ strike in Paraguay enters its fifth day with 39 pediatric surgeons threatening to resign from Monday, while the government proposes a phased 76% increase over 14 months and lawmakers disagree over funding sources.
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.
Women account for 16% of mayoral candidacies in Paraguay’s 2026 municipal elections, up from 12.9% in 2021, while they represent 32% of registrations for Municipal Councils, according to the Supreme Tribunal of Electoral Justice, which is providing training to expand women’s political participation.
Paraguay’s Senate is investigating whether IPS requires beneficiaries, retirees and pensioners to open accounts at Ueno Bank to receive loans, following a complaint of a possible monopoly and the concentration of ₲5.1 trillion in state funds at the institution.
Paraguay’s Ministry of Education and Sciences restricted the registration of diplomas without accreditation and launched RUE-ES as the trial of Hernán Rivas revealed that his law degree was registered in six minutes after an alleged “higher-up order,” despite irregularities—an allegation denied by former minister Eduardo Petta.
Former Petropar president Sergio Escobar Amarilla was sentenced to three years in prison for breach of trust after failing to properly oversee an unfinished electrification contract that caused an estimated G. 12 billion loss in Mauricio José Troche; former manager Leoncio Saúl González was acquitted after proceedings lasting more than 12 years.
In the Asunción election campaign, Soledad Núñez presented a six-measure plan against municipal corruption, while her rival Camilo Pérez's team promised to secure $300 million in international funding to restructure the capital's finances.
The ANDE Workers Union (Sitrande) suspended its protest after Paraguay's Chamber of Deputies postponed the vote on the bill creating the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Hydrocarbons and announced a broad dialogue table with participation from the state utility, government, and lawmakers.
Paraguayan public entities are massively resorting to the argument of 'unavoidable urgency' to make purchases without bidding, a practice criticized by Senator Rafael Filizzola, who warns that the legal exception has become the rule.
Paraguayan doctors began a five-day national strike, suspending consultations and elective surgeries, to demand a salary adjustment, an end to precarious contracts, and the replenishment of supplies, while the government claims a lack of resources to meet the demands.
Paraguay's Chamber of Deputies is debating a request to summon the Minister of Public Works over the state of highways, prompted by a fatal accident, while expecting to approve a new $1 million credit for her ministry.
Guairá Governor César Sosa denies a presidential pre-candidacy and prioritizes municipal elections, while the opposition, led by Senator Yolanda Paredes, crafts a strategy for 2028 focused on unity and fighting corruption.
Paraguay's timber industry attracts about 20 international business delegations to a fair in September 2026, amid sector export growth that exceeded 100,000 tons from January to July.