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Cryptocurrency miners whose servers generate their digital product have flocked to Paraguay to take advantage of the landlocked South American country’s low taxes and cheap electricity. But as power shortages continue to plague the capital of Asunción, many of these crypto miners also steal electricity, as...

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The World Briefly

February 16, 2024

In the Line of Fire

Paraguay

Paraguay’s upper house voted this week to expel one of the few opposition voices in the country’s political scene, sparking protests and concerns about the state of democracy in the South American nation, Reuters reported. Lawmakers approved the dismissal of Senator Kattya Gonzales from the center-left...

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The World Briefly

May 03, 2023

Wanted: Status Quo

Paraguay

Former Minister of Finance Santiago Peña won Paraguay’s presidential elections, returning the ruling Colorado Party to power after a tight race that had threatened to end its decades-long hold on the country, Al Jazeera reported. Results showed that Peña received more than 42 percent of the...

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Need to Know

April 28, 2023

Change and Its Discontents

Paraguay

Presidents from the Colorado Party have ruled Paraguay for all but five years since the South American country adopted democracy in 1992. Now, however, as Paraguayan voters head to the polls to elect a new president on April 30, Colorado Party candidate and Finance Minister...

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Need to Know

March 02, 2023

A Dragon in the Shadows

Paraguay

When voters in Paraguay go to the polls on April 30, they will vote for every high office in the land – president, vice president, all 80 lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies and all 45 senators, as well as every governor of the country’s...

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The World Briefly

August 15, 2022

Dirty Justice

Paraguay

Paraguayan Vice-President Hugo Adalberto Velázquez Moreno will step down from his post after the US blacklisted him for alleged corruption, a move that further erodes trust in the government of the South American nation, the Washington Post reported. US officials unveiled a corruption list Friday that...

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