Paraguay News

ASUNCION, Paraguay Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water.

The group, who shot to fame on the X Factor, have become a global phenomenon since their debut single in 2011 and have sold more than 30 million records and DVDs globally and topped the charts in more than 37 countries.

This weekend I read an article in the current edition of The Intelligent Optimist titled No Limitations .

On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I extend my best wishes to the people of Paraguay as they celebrate 202 years of independence on May 15.

Money changers and car parkers, paperboys, vendors of fruit juice and handicrafts, soccer articles and herbs for the popular drink called "terere," populate the streets of Asuncion and represent the informal economy that allows hundreds of thousands of families to survive.

ASUNCION, Paraguay - Paraguay's president-elect Horacio Cartes will be able to control Congress when he begins his five-year mandate in August.

Lesbian workers take part in the traditional May Day rally on May 1 in Asuncion, Paraguay.

The priest faltered a bit as he climbed the stairs to the museum, housed in an attic above a church in ItapA©, Paraguay, a town founded as a Franciscan mission in 1672.

Paraguay's April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy "tobacco magnate," rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of laundering drug money, tax evasion and other crimes, raises the specter of "state capture" by powerful drug cartels linked to US intelligence agencies.