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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

Spain donates 7.5 million vaccines to Latin American countries, with the first countries to receive these vaccines being Peru, Paraguay and Guatemala.
2021-08-5

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

At least eight Paraguayan Army soldiers are killed in an ambush by suspected Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) insurgents, near the village of Arroyito, in northern Paraguay.
2016-08-27

Eleven Turkish-German members of Germany's Parliament, the Bundestag, who voted in support of declaring the Ottoman Turks slaughter of Armenians in 1915 a genocide, are under police protection. The legislators have faced heavy criticism from Turkish officials, as well as from Turkish Germans.
2016-06-13

Paraguayan politician and presidential candidate Lino Oviedo is killed in a helicopter crash near Puerto Antequera in the Chaco region.
2013-02-3

Authorities in Paraguay arrest a Bolivian drug lord and seize nearly 1700kg of cocaine near the border with Brazil.
2012-11-11

Ousted President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo condemns the "coup against the citizenry and democracy" that ousted him from his office.
2012-06-24

Paraguayan footballer Salvador Cabañas, shot by a gun in the head, says his memories are vague.
2010-08-3

Paraguay passes a bill, requested by President, Fernando Lugo, that suspends constitutional rights for 30 days in parts of the country after the Paraguayan People's Army (PPA) kills four people.
2010-04-24