Leryn Franco

Leryn Franco probably isn't used to playing second fiddle, but the heart of sportsnet.ca readers belongs to someone else. Paraguay’s Leryn Franco first gained athletic notoriety competing nationally in the javelin throw and the triple jump in 1998 ...  

Venezuela's incorporation in Mercosur, considered a certainty after Brazilian ratification, now faces a new hurdle in Paraguay, which says the man and not the country is the problem. Paraguay reiterated this week it would oppose Venezuela's entry so ...  

The Paraguayan javelin thrower competed in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing 42nd and 51st overall respectively. She was runner-up Miss Universo Paraguay 2006. Will she be the runner up as sportsnet.ca's hottest athlete? You decide  

Buenos Aires Herald: Paraguayan Congress will remain blocking Venezuela's entry into Mercosur trade bloc "as long as President Hugo Chavez continues intervening in foreign affairs," stated the Head of the Senate, Miguel Carrizosa, just a day after ...  

An alleged cocaine trafficker who disappeared into the Meadowlands in Ridgefield last summer as authorities were closing in has been captured in his native Paraguay, after crossing the border from Brazil, authorities said. Alberto Chavez, 29, of ...  

SANTIAGO, Dec 09, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and her visiting Paraguayan counterpart Fernando Lugo on Wednesday signed a technical cooperation agenda. The agenda is for the period of 2010-2011 and "it is added to ...  

(AP) ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) - An appeals court in Paraguay has overturned the corruption conviction and prison sentence for a former president, drawing criticism from the current government. Ex-President Luis Gonzalez Macchi had been sentenced to ...  

Trafficked girls and women from the Paraguayan interior are among the merchandise in the triple-border shopping region with Argentina and Brazil. Advocates try to help traumatized survivors find "some way to live." Ciudad Del Este, Paraguay - The central business district of this border city is lined with stalls selling counterfeit goods. Shopping centers offer seemingly everything and at the right price to a constant stream of shoppers from...  

BirdLife Partner Guyra Paraguay has warned that if current rates of deforestation continue, the Chaco, currently home to rich and abundant biodiversity, could soon be reduced to the same state as South America’s Atlantic Forest: isolated fragments providing a tenuous...  

ASUNCIÓN, Mar 10 (IPS) - Graciela Samaniego has her bags packed. Along with a number of fellow nurses, she is ready to leave her job at a public hospital in the Paraguayan capital and fly to a city in northern Italy, where she will work in a nursing ...  

In terms of cinema, Paraguay is an invisible nation, a nation without images, without audio-visual stories until recently, when they pleasantly surprised the world at Cannes. The Paraguayan film industry is quite small compared to those in Argentina ...  

Paraguayan champions Cerro Porteno have been fined $30,000 and banned from holding matches at their home ground for four games after fans ran riot at a Copa Sudamericana match, the South American Football Confederation (CSF) said on Tuesday. Cerro ...  

WASHINGTON - US AND Paraguayan representatives held talks in Washington Saturday to shore up trade ties and extend an intellectual rights accord, US officials said. 'Today's meeting provided an opportunity for a productive exchange of ideas on how we ...  

A technician works at the Imperio Guarani factory, 10 km from Asunci㮬Paraguay, to extract the sweetener from stevia plants (stevia rebaudiana bertoni), in 2007. US and Paraguayan representatives held talks in Washington Saturday to shore up trade ...  

ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguay’s leftist president accused political rivals yestersday of trying to destabilize his government by spreading rumours that he fathered yet another child when he was a Roman Catholic cleric. Fernando Lugo, a former ...