Asunción News

Members of various homeless organizations nailed the women's hands and bound their feet to crosses in a plaza to pressure the Social Action Secretariat to give them $1 million to purchase land and build homes. Two women let themselves be...

Paraguay — Paraguayan authorities say 1,500 people have escaped a fire that destroyed a supermarket on the outskirts of the capital, killing two people. Officials say firefighters and police recovered the bodies of two dead males from the wreckage in...

Freddy Garcete, a 50-year-old painter who works in the construction industry, travelled to Spain in search of better wages two years ago, becoming one of the 500,000 Paraguayans forced to seek work abroad because of the conditions at home. But...