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Caperex and Digemabel maintain a permanent working group to coordinate controls on weapons and military materials in courier shipments, aiming to prevent irregular operations, strengthen traceability and improve clear, secure procedures. The coordination matters for Paraguay’s security and regional logistics because it seeks to reduce risks in the cross-border transport of regulated goods.
Paraguay’s attorney general and the Association of Prosecutors asked for preventive protection for Verónica Valdez and Jorge Arce after an exchange with Arnaldo Giuzzio during his trial. Giuzzio denies that he threatened them, describing the exchange as a forceful complaint about the handling of allegations involving former president Horacio Cartes.
Operation Mirage detained five Brazilians in La Paloma, Canindeyú, and seized weapons, ammunition, electronic devices and two vehicles reported stolen in Brazil. Police are investigating possible links to the PCC and counterfeit medicines.
A joint anti-drug operation between Paraguay and Brazil destroyed over 436 tons of marijuana in natural reserves in eastern Paraguay, causing an estimated loss of more than 65 million dollars to criminal groups.
Paraguay is more violent than Germany and Argentina but substantially less violent than Brazil on the latest comparable homicide measure. Inside the country, risk is highly uneven—and property-crime tables are much harder to compare than headlines suggest.
Prison officers intercepted a package with explosive substances at Minga Guazú prison, leading to an investigation into possible dynamite manufacturing, while in an unrelated event, a driver was shot dead in Pedro Juan Caballero.
Paraguayan police remove an agent and investigate an alleged scheme for irregular issuance of identity cards to foreigners, mainly Brazilians, after blocking the delivery of documents to people with criminal records.
The Court of Appeals rejected the recusal request by presidential pre-candidate Arnoldo Wiens and maintained Judge Humberto Otazú in the case investigating alleged damages of G. 14,955 million to the State in the Metrobús project.
Minister Llanes proposes centralizing communication for Paraguay's Judiciary, an initiative critics view as shielding information and emerging amid influence peddling accusations against her son.
Paraguay has received its fifth A-29 Super Tucano aircraft, with the sixth and final one to be delivered in September, in an investment of 100 to 150 million dollars that the government considers crucial to combat clandestine flights and strengthen air sovereignty.
Former IPS president Vicente Bataglia received house arrest for irregular entry into the country, while another former president Jorge Brítez faces a second criminal case for elevator bidding and his lawyer alleges political persecution, and a third, Andrés Gubetich, returned to EBY with high salary and is investigated for fraud, amid a billion-dollar loss case at the institute.
Paraguay expelled to Brazil the leader of the Comando Catarinense, Fábio Celso Oberoli, and his companion, who were detained in Pedro Juan Caballero and are wanted for drug trafficking.
Paraguay Police seized cocaine in a parcel bound for Spain, marijuana in vegetables destined for a prison, and over 300 kg of premium marijuana in a truck at Puente de la Integración.
The court convicted five people, including former security managers of Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, for cocaine trafficking in the Scanner case and referred background materials to investigate Senator Líder Amarilla.
Paraguay's Social Security Institute faces a multifaceted crisis with a mass exodus of doctors, a change in its board, an asset crisis, and a bill to declare a state of emergency, while the government highlights its construction of new hospitals.
A SENAD agent was convicted for attempting to leak confidential data on trafficker Sebastián Marset, while another agent from the same institution denies extortion accusations in a separate case.
Paraguay's National Police arrested two Brazilian citizens suspected of belonging to the First Capital Command (PCC) criminal faction in Ciudad del Este. One was using a false identity and had an international arrest warrant for drug trafficking. They entered the country from Argentina clandestinely and were presumed to be planning to cross illegally into Argentina.
Senave issued a sanitary alert against the cassava 'Witches' Broom' pest that threatens food security and warned that the El Niño phenomenon may favor the emergence of other pests in various crops.
The minister of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) defended an operation in Paraguay that killed an indigenous leader and a teacher, denying summary executions in the face of criticism from politicians and human rights groups.
The Paraguayan Air Force is analyzing the possible incorporation of F-5 fighters from Taiwan to regain supersonic capability, in preliminary talks that also assess high operational costs and necessary logistics.
The Federal Revenue seized at the Friendship Bridge a shipment of sealed boxes that, supposedly containing high-value cellphones, were filled only with dirt.
An anti-drug operation in Paraguay resulted in only one person accused and raised questions about the deaths of two indigenous men, whose official confrontation version is rejected by the community alleging execution.
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.
The Paraguayan Prosecutor's Office requests a jury trial for a politician's brother for child sexual abuse and rejects the statute of limitations in the case against former minister Arnoldo Wiens for the Metrobús project, while police seize weapons in a security operation for Asunción's anniversary.