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Police in Paraguay seize more than four tons of cocaine, worth $240 million, at a river port in Asunción, the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history.
2024-07-16

Osvaldo Villalba, a leader of the Marxist–Leninist Paraguayan People's Army rebel group, is killed alongside two other militants during a gunfight with soldiers in Amambay, Paraguay.
2022-10-23

The decomposed remains of seven people, believed to be undocumented migrants, are discovered in a fertiliser container in Asunción, Paraguay. The container set off from Serbia on 21 July and travelled through Croatia, Egypt, Spain and Argentina en route to Paraguay. Three of the seven were identified as being from Morocco and one from Egypt. According to the coroner, asphyxiation was the likely cause of death.
2020-10-23

Paraguay suspends all school and university activities and large-scale public events for 15 days as a measure of control due to the coronavirus pandemic.
2020-03-10

Former Paraguayan Congresswoman Cynthia Tarragó is arrested alongside her husband at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey and charged with money laundering, following an undercover operation from FBI agents who purported to be drug traffickers. According to court documents, in addition to money laudering, Tarragó offered to traffic drugs herself from Paraguay.
2019-11-22

Colorado Party candidate Mario Abdo Benítez is elected President of Paraguay.
2018-04-22

A man is arrested in Paraguay for allegedly raping and impregnating his ten-year-old stepdaughter.
2015-05-9

Police officers attempting to evict landless farmers occupying a property in the Paraguayan department of Canindeyú turn into clashes, killing 16 officers and farmers.
2012-06-15