The robotics team “Breaking Bot”, made up of students from Ciudad del Este (Alto Paraná), was awarded on Saturday as a finalist champion in the First Lego League Challenge in Houston, United States. The team of young Paraguayans, representing the country for the second time at this event, achieved third...

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To represent the Healthy and Happy Life Group of the National Sports Secretariat (SND) in cultural, folkloric, and sports events, senior citizens attending the institution’s Sports Schools are intensifying their rehearsals to form a folk dance group. In an effort to promote Paraguayan culture and folklore, the SND took a...

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Dr Martín Almada, a distinguished Paraguayan human rights lawyer, educator, multiple award winner, and co-founder of the ‘Museo de las Memorias’ (Museum of Memories) in Asunción, passed away on 30th March at the age of 87. He leaves behind a monumental legacy of standing up to repressive military regimes, with...

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The Itaipu Dam at dusk
The National Electricity Administration (ANDE) has announced that at 2:38pm today, the country experienced its highest ever electricity demand, coming in at 4,925 MegaWatts (MW). This is the third time the record has been broken so far this year, beating the previous record set on 12th February at 2:14pm, which...

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In an effort to establish itself as a strategic transport node in South America, Paraguay has launched an ambitious agenda of infrastructure projects under the administration of President Santiago Peña. The Paraguayan government’s vision aims to position the country as a “multimodal logistics centre”, leveraging its strategic location between Brazil,...

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For decades, scientists have been trying to invent ways to reduce global warming, with both average and extreme temperatures constantly on the rise. On Wednesday, a study published in the Science Advances journal proposes how one of these ideas could potentially work – an idea called “marine cloud brightening” (MCB),...

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