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RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: President Apologises to Victims of Dictatorship

RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: ASUNCIN, Aug 28 (IPS) - Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo apologised Thursday in the name of the state to the victims of human rights violations committed by the 1954-1989 dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. The testimony ...

From DAVID VARGAS, Inter Press Service,  28 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Alfredo Stroessner

PARAGUAY: "Today a New Country Is Born," Says New President

PARAGUAY: ASUNCION, Aug 15 (IPS) - Former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo was sworn in Friday as president of Paraguay in a ceremony charged with emotion that broke with protocol, promising to rebuild this impoverished landlocked South ...

From DAVID VARGAS, Inter Press Service,  15 Aug 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Nicanor Duarte,  U.S. Republican Party,  Alfredo Stroessner,  Pope Benedict XVI

POLITICS-PARAGUAY: Rock Road Ahead for Lugo

POLITICS-PARAGUAY: ASUNCION, Aug 14 (IPS) - Amidst anticipation and apprehension regarding the imminent political transition, Paraguay is gearing up for Fridays inauguration of centre-left President-elect Fernando Lugo, known as the ...

From DAVID VARGAS, Inter Press Service,  14 Aug 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Alfredo Stroessner,  U.S. Republican Party

PARAGUAY: Concerns, Tension Rise with Water Level in Yacyretá Dam

PARAGUAY: ENCARNACIÓN, Paraguay, Aug 14 (IPS) - Hundreds of people living in the Paraguayan border city of Encarnación are worried about flooding as the result of a rise in water level in the Yacyretá hydroelectric dam, an issue that is ...

From DAVID VARGAS, Inter Press Service,  14 Aug 2008

CHICAGO REAL ESTATE AGENT ON THE COVER OF REALTOR MAGAZINE

This month Realtor Magazine (www.realtor.org/rmohome/toc/tocprint) takes a unique look at real estate training methods including an improv workshop sponsored by Chicago broker (at)properties. “At first it was a little stressful and uncomfortable ...

From DAVID VARGAS AT PROPERTIES, Fast Pitch Networking,  6 Aug 2008
Related Topics: REALTOR Magazine

PARAGUAY: Fourteen Years in the Wilderness

PARAGUAY: By David Vargas - Special to IPS POZO COLORADO, Jul 1 (IPS) - Indigenous Enxet people are still waiting for the restitution of their ancestral lands, nearly three years after the Paraguayan state was convicted by the ...

From DAVID VARGAS - SPECIAL TO IPS, Inter Press Service,  1 Jul 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress

properties Realtor Turns Boxing Event Into Fundraiser For Brother s Foundation

Chicago IL, USA, June 18, 2008 – A slow real estate market hasn’t knocked out one realtor who is fighting to debut a new foundation named after his late brother. David Vargas, a full time real estate agent with (at)properties will raise money for ...

From DAVID VARGAS AT PROPERTIES, Fast Pitch Networking,  29 Jun 2008

HEALTH-PARAGUAY: Hospitals on the Critical List

HEALTH-PARAGUAY: ASUNCION, Jun 26 (IPS) - Paraguays public hospitals are on the verge of collapse, due to a lack of resources for responding to the wave of southern hemisphere winter illnesses. The first measure to be adopted by the new ...

From DAVID VARGAS, Inter Press Service,  26 Jun 2008

PARAGUAY: University Students on the March Again

PARAGUAY: ASUNCIÓN, Jun 13 (IPS) - After nearly two decades of apathy, the university student movement in Paraguay has made a comeback, demanding a law to grant them rebates on public transport fares and opposing a draft law on higher ...

From DAVID VARGAS, Inter Press Service,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  Alfredo Stroessner

PARAGUAY: Women’s Cooperative Buys in Bulk to Beat Food Inflation

PARAGUAY: ASUNCION, May 21 (IPS) - Making the old saying "cheaper by the dozen" their motto, a group of women in a poor neighbourhood of Asunción created a cooperative to buy food in bulk, in order to combat the rise in food prices. The 56 ...

From DAVID VARGAS, Inter Press Service,  21 May 2008
Related Topics: UNICEF

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