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A 42-year-old woman was detained in Ypané after allegedly assaulting her husband and two young daughters, spreading gasoline inside the house, and threatening to set it on fire. Police intervened after neighbors called 911.
ypaneCristian Martín Peralta Peralta, alias Pachigua, was recaptured by the National Police in the Obrero neighborhood of Asunción, after having escaped from the General Hospital of Luque on May 12. The alleged drug trafficker was under the custody of prison officer Héctor Raúl Rojas Rolón, who was arrested and charged. The recapture occurred without resistance.
hospital-de-luqueA 26-year-old woman killed her 7-year-old son and hanged herself in a boarding house in Lambaré. In a letter published on Instagram, she accused her ex-partner of sexually abusing the child since age 3 and stated that the complaint filed with the police and the Public Prosecutor's Office was never investigated. The case is under the responsibility of prosecutor Nora Cubilla.
lambareinstagramThe business delegation that accompanied President Santiago Peña to Taiwan returned with concrete agreements to open the Taiwanese market to Paraguayan chicken meat, sell carbon credits, and set up bus and solar panel factories in Paraguay.
A police pursuit in Mayor Otaño, Itapúa, turned deadly early Sunday as officers exchanged gunfire with suspects in two vehicles. One man was killed, another arrested, and a large quantity of marijuana was confiscated.
mayor-otanoitapuaThe department concentrates nearly half of the national revenue in the sector, driven by infrastructure and construction works.
alto-paranapresidente-hayesitapuaThe Ceiba chodatii, an emblematic tree of the Paraguayan Chaco, gains a rare specimen with yellow flowers in Parque Rodó, Montevideo. Amateur botanist Antonio Schinca documents the reproductive difficulties of the specimen, which blooms in the austral winter and suffers from a lack of pollinators. The tree, known as samu'u, is also used in the Chaco to make canoes that transport children to school during floods.
ceiba-chodatiimontevideoParaguay's Ministry of Justice has launched Operation Umbral 2.5, transferring female inmates to the Emboscada Women's Penitentiary Complex (Comple), in a coordinated action with CODENA and other security forces. The operation takes place under strict security measures and aims to reorganize the national prison system.
Raised in Barrio Obrero, Miguel Figueredo transformed a nighttime laboratory into the largest private health insurer in Paraguay. Today he chairs the board of MAPFRE Paraguay and has served as a director of Club Sol de América and the Paraguayan Football Association (APF).
miguel-figueredoasismedmapfre-paraguayNew research reignites the debate on the origin of human personality, pointing to a complex interaction between heredity and environment, with emphasis on neuroplasticity and epigenetics.
President Santiago Peña's announcement of building the world's largest artificial intelligence center in Paraguay has generated skepticism among local experts, who point to a lack of technical capacity and warn of the risk of the country becoming a mere supplier of cheap energy in a global geopolitical dispute.
taiwannvidiatsmcAfter 16 years of absence, the qualification of the Paraguayan National Team for the 2030 World Cup, under the command of Gustavo Alfaro, generates economic expectations and international projection. Group D, with the United States, Turkey, and Australia, opens opportunities for the Country Brand, agribusiness, tourism, and sectors such as clothing and technology, with emphasis on the digitalization of MSMEs.
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