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PARAGUAY: Health Insurance for All (Registered) Domestics

By Natalia Ruiz Díaz

It took 42 years for social security health care coverage for domestics to extend beyond the limits of the Paraguayan capital.

The measure adopted by the social security institute, the Instituto de Previsión Social, could potentially benefit some 290,000 people – mainly women – working in domestic service throughout this impoverished landlocked South American country of 6.1 million, as well as their families.

"This is a huge stride forward which will help improve the living conditions of domestics in Paraguay," the president of the Association of Domestic Service Workers (AESD), Solana Meza, told IPS.

The challenge now is to get employers to register their domestics with the social security system, which very few have done.

Although health care coverage is obligatory for formal sector workers under Paraguay's labour code, only as of this week do all domestic workers have a right to health insurance - 42 years after the inclusion of that stipulation in the social security institute's charter in 1967.

Domestic workers were not covered when the Instituto de Previsión Social was established in 1943. That situation began to change when a special system for health insurance for domestics went into effect in Asunción in 1967. The aim was to gradually expand it to the whole country. But that never happened.

The social security institute's health care insurance covers maternity, non work-related illness, work-related illness and accidents, surgery, dental care, medication, hospitalisation and a disability subsidy.

Read full article at IPS News

Convicted Paraguay torturers kept earning salaries

ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Three police chiefs imprisoned for torture have finally have been fired after collecting their salaries from behind bars since 1995, Paraguay's interior minister said Tuesday.

The former officials are serving 25-year terms in maximum security prison for human rights offenses under the dictatorship of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, including the torture of opposition politicians.

Stroessner was toppled in a 1989 military coup, but the regime's allied Colorado Party held on to power until 2008.

Interior Minister Rafael Filizzola called it unfortunate that the convicts - Camilo Almada Morel, Lucilo Benitez and Juan Martinez - were able to collect pay for so long.

"This government promised to do everything in its power to strengthen democracy and avoid situations that may weaken its credibility and the democratic system," Filizzola said.

Read more at Miami Herald

Top ten most unsanitary practices in Paraguay...

But you grow to love!!

I snagged these from my friend Mark because they are so right on, and I think are applicable in all parts of Paraguay, with MAYBE the exception of some rich people in the capital city. I did add a few personal touches that tend to stretch the boundaries a tad more.

1) Sharing the same guampa and bombilla (drinking cup/bottle and metal straw when drinking Terere). In other words drinking after multiple people usually sitting in a circle and using the same straw, even random drunks and bus drivers...I may or may not be speaking from personal experience.

2) Being served and huge central trough of food among many people, and all sharing one set of silverware, or not using silverware at all!

3) Being served a plate of food on a plate recently used by someone else, and not yet cleaned. Same goes for glasses.

4) Being expected to use the tablecloth as your napkin, that is, grabbing the table cloth and wiping your mouth and hands on it. Table clothes are usually changed every 3-5 days.

5) Sharing a glass with any acquaintance remotely known, when drinking almost any beverage.


You'll love the rest!!! Go to Rohayhu Paraguaype.

Al Paraguay hay que sentirlo. Watch this Video!!!

I found this video, which is promoting tourism in the country. It shows great places to visit sometimes!




Check it out, the girl is really sweet and the places are super cool.
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This is the Congress in Paraguay. Nice Pic!!!

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Paraguay Embassies and Consulates

Here you’ll find a link to Paraguay embassies and consulates overseas, link to foreign embassies and consulates in Paraguay, and (because this is an English language website) full listing of contact information for the embassies and consulates of English-speaking nations in Paraguay.

Would you like to see a link to the list of Paraguayan Embassies and Consulates in your country? Conversely, would you like to see the embassies and consulates of your country in Paraguay listed on this page?

Embassies and Consulates of English Speaking Countries in Paraguay

United States embassy
1776 Mariscal Lopez Avenue
Asuncion, Paraguay
City: Asuncion
Phone: 95 21 213-715
Fax: 95 21 213-715
Web Site: http://paraguay.usembassy.gov/
Email: paraguayusembassy@state.gov
Office Hours: Monday thru Thursday 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM and Friday 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM Except Paraguayan and American Holidays.

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Currency Converter

Use this currency converter to calculate how much your currency is valued at in any other country of the world. In some countries of South America the currency fluctuates continually (based on the value of the U.S. dollar) and residents become accustomed to using a currency converter (or checking the newspaper) daily to view the exchange rate for a particular day. In other countries the currency is more stable.

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Living Abroad is Good for Kids

Do children benefit from living overseas? Most British expats seem to think so. A new survey just out from the British bank NatWest and the Centre for Future Studies says 67% of British expats believed their children had received better education abroad and a resounding 93% thought expat life had benefitted their children. Our family's personal experience would echo this. My son had just turned 9 when we first went overseas and he was educated in 5 different schools, in 4 different countries (including our home, Canada). To be fair, the overseas schools he attended were all private, very expensive and full of middle class children, so I have no doubt those factors had the most impact on the quality of his education, rather than the fact that they were overseas. However the experience of living overseas, that is the education he got outside of school, was priceless and will no doubt affect him for the rest of his life.

Read full text at Expatriate Life