Itapua Noticias

Electoral officials explain how nonvoters will be identified and discuss justifications and collection. Voters can check their polling place on the TSJE portal and should bring their physical identity card, even if it has expired.

The Sarambí operation searched seven properties in Pedro Juan Caballero to investigate a suspected network moving stolen vehicles from Brazil to Paraguay. Marciano Denis Torales, identified as its alleged leader, was not found.

Paving work on 11.7 kilometers of the Ruta de los Inmigrantes in Itapúa is 68.79% complete, with base, drainage and road-safety work underway, while another 32 kilometers await bidding; the project aims to facilitate agricultural transport and boost mobility and tourism in Hohenau.

Pedro Alliana and Horacio Cartes reaffirmed unity in the Colorado Party and prioritized the October 4 municipal elections, while the choice of its 2028 presidential ticket remains undecided.

Petropar raised prices per liter by G. 495 for Diesel Porã and Mbarete and by G. 150 for Aratiri 97 gasoline, with the new prices in effect since September 24. Sources differ on the diesel prices before the increase and attribute the adjustment to higher international oil prices and a trend of increases at private stations.

Luis Raúl Menocchio, sentenced to life imprisonment in Argentina, claimed in an interview that he enjoyed political protection in Paraguay and denied involvement in the murders of Eduardo Maciel and Graciela Méndez, crimes for which he was never tried in the neighboring country because he fled before proceedings began.

Vori vori ranked first, with a score of 4.7, in Taste Atlas’s list of the 50 best soups in the world, updated in September 2026, for the fourth consecutive year.

The MADES environment ministry, the Paraguayan Naval Prefecture and the Yacyretá Binational Entity (EBY) are carrying out fishing controls in the Ayolas area during the upstream migration of dourado and boga, checking licenses, tagging records and the minimum sizes established by law.

Santiago Peña and Delcy Rodríguez have opened talks in Caracas on restoring diplomatic relations. The move follows the 2025 rupture and combines security, economic and migration interests with a domestic debate over Paraguay’s position on Venezuela’s democratic institutions and human-rights situation.

Paraguay expanded rapid HIV testing across the public health network and accelerated the start of antiretroviral treatment: 371,480 tests were conducted in 2025, while 180 people began therapy between November 2025 and August 2026, including 139 in 2026.

An agreement between the Paraguayan government and unions providing for a 5% salary increase in 2027 reduced the national teachers’ strike, but divided the organizations and kept groups seeking 8% mobilized before some of them suspended the action.

A meeting held on September 2 in Encarnación celebrated 90 years of Japanese immigration to Paraguay and discussed the contribution of immigrant communities to the country's development.

Senad seized 30 7.62-caliber rifles in Pedro Juan Caballero and detained two brothers. Authorities are investigating whether the weapons were intended for criminal groups in Brazil.

Petropar has begun selling Jet A-1 and AVGAS in Paraguay, with one plant operating in Encarnación and plans for five facilities through a public-private partnership that does not require direct state investment in infrastructure.

At 93, Lilia Piatti defended her thesis with top marks and became a Doctor of Education from INAES, with research on the impact of the digital divide on adult learning.

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 Prosecutor's Office accused a couple of operating a pyramid scheme in Asunción since late 2025, promising high returns on events such as the pilgrimage to Caacupé, while in Encarnación a woman received alternative measures to imprisonment for diverting 200 million guaranis in a currency exchange operation.

Paraguay's Tourism Minister, Jacinto Santa María, resigned after three months for "personal and dignity reasons", and the government announced the merger of the portfolio with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

An American tourist was detained by police in Coronel Bogado, Paraguay, after being reported by residents for photographing an exotic plant in front of a Public Prosecutor's Office assistant's house.

Former Senator Enrique Bacchetta alerted the Chamber of Deputies in 2020 about doubts regarding Hernán Rivas' law degree, whose trial for using a false document reveals certificates with serious spelling errors and testimony from a former university rector who claims to have signed it inside a car without ever seeing Rivas attend classes.

Paraguay's National Electricity Administration (ANDE) maintains suspended two strategic financial projects — energy sales to Brazil and a $198 million bond issuance — while focusing efforts on internal debt renegotiation programs and warning about the inclusion of defaulters in the Equifax credit bureau.

Paraguayan professor rescued after being lost for days in the Misiones forest in Argentina while trying to recover a weather balloon for an academic project, after reporting fleeing from a jaguar.

Police arrested five foreigners — two Spaniards and three Bolivians — for the double homicide of gold buyers in Encarnación, following a scam that left two victims dead and one man injured.

The Tourism Minister and the Governor of Itapúa launched a tourist guide for the WRC Ueno Rally del Paraguay 2026, whose organizers project the attraction of 400,000 visitors with new attractions at the event.