During the election campaign, leftist candidate Efraín Alegre, defeated by Santiago Peña in Paraguay's presidential elections, criticized the relationship with Taiwan, considered a "rebel province" by the Chinese Communist Party.
Asunción, Apr 30 (EFE).- Santiago Peña won Paraguay’s presidential elections on Sunday, with his conservative ruling party also winning a majority in the Senate and at least 15 of the 17 disputed governorates, according to the official provisional count. Peña became the country’s president elect with 42.9 percent of the votes over center-left Concertacion coalition …
Paraguay s President Mario Abdo Benítez Wednesday confirmed having met with US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Deputy Director David Cohen in Asunción to discuss national security issues.