Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos is a Paraguayan lawyer, journalist and politician who served as the 47th President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008. A member of the Colorado Party, he became the central figure of Paraguayan politics during his presidency.
Miss Paraguay is a national beauty pageant in Paraguay established in 1957 that selects the Paraguay's representative to Miss Intercontinental and Reinado Internacional del Café.
Television in Latin America currently includes more than 1,500 television stations and more than 60 million TV sets throughout the 20 countries that constitute Latin America. Due to economic and political problems television networks in some countries of this region have developed less than the North American and European networks, for instance. In other countries like Colombia or Chile, television broadcasting has historically been public-broadcast dominated until the 1990s. The largest commercial television groups are Mexico-based Televisa, Brazil-based Globo and Canada-based Canwest Latin American Group. Due to the shared language of Spanish by two thirds of Latin Americans a lot of programmes and broadcasters operate throughout the region, offering both United States television and Spanish-language television.
Paraguay TV is a Paraguayan television network. It is the first television station operated by the Paraguayan government, as well as the country's first digital channel. Experimental transmissions began on 15 August 2011, and regular scheduled programming began on 11 December.
Carlos Alberto Filizzola Pallarés is a Paraguayan physician, labor unionist and politician who served as mayor of Asunción from 1991 to 1996, being the first one to be democratically elected. He later served four terms as senator, from 2003 to 2011 and again from 2012 to 2023, having been appointed Minister of the Interior in the meantime, under the presidency of Fernando Lugo. He was also the President of the Senate from 2005 to 2006 and the running mate of Domingo Laíno in the 1998 presidential election.
Sistema Nacional de Televisión, sometimes simply known as SNT, is a Paraguayan television network which reaches almost the entire population of Paraguay. SNT coverage almost all the Región Oriental, where approximately 97% of the population of Paraguay lives. Currently it has 11 repeaters.
The insurgency in Paraguay, also known as the Paraguayan People's Army insurgency and the EPP rebellion, is an ongoing low-level armed conflict in northeastern Paraguay. Between 2005 and the summer of 2014, the EPP campaign resulted in at least 50 deaths, the majority of them local ranchers, private security guards, and police officers, along with several insurgents. During that same period the group perpetrated 28 kidnappings for ransom and a total of 85 "violent acts".
Berta Rojas is a Paraguayan classical guitarist. She was awarded a Latin Grammy for her album "Legado" (2022) in the category of "Best Classical Album". The same album received another statuette for "Best Contemporary Classical Contemporary Composition" for Anido's Portrait, written by Sergio Assad. She has been nominated to the Latin Grammy on three other occasions: In 2012 she was nominated for Best Instrumental Album in the Latin Grammys for her album "Día y Medio " which she recorded with Paquito D’Rivera. For her album "Salsa Roja", she was nominated at the 2014 Latin Grammy Awards in the category of Best Classical Album. She got her third nomination in the 16th Annual Latin Grammy Awards for Best Tango Album for her album "History of Tango", which she recorded with the iconic Camerata Bariloche.
Unicanal is a Paraguayan Digital television network owned and operated by Grupo JBB.
Plinio Penzzi is a former Paraguayan long distance runner who represented Paraguay at the 2003 South American Cross Country Championships. He is now the secretary, coach and organizer of the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. He has coached Christopher Ortiz, Fredy Maidana, Larson Díaz, Víctor Fatecha, Ana Camila Pirelli and Laura Paredes.
Margarita Morselli is an artist who is considered a pioneer in the use of a video as a form of artistic expression in Paraguay. The work she presented was on abstraction with references to real spaces.
The List is a 2022 Paraguayan-Argentine thriller film directed and written by Michael J. Hardy. The film stars Fernando Abadie, Claudia Scavone, Nathan Haase, Javier Enciso, Héctor Silva, Jesús Pérez, and Eduardo Cano.
This is a list of Spanish television related events in 1989.
Miss Grand Paraguay is an annual female beauty pageant based in Asunción of Paraguay, founded in 2017 by Gabriel Roman of MGM Productions, aiming to select the country representatives to compete in various international pageants including its parent pageant, Miss Grand International, in which Paraguay won the main title once in 2018, by Clara Sosa of Asunción, and was placed among the Top 20 semifinalists three times in 2017, 2019 and 2022 by Lía Ashmore, Milena Rodríguez and Agatha León, respectively.
María Soledad Núñez Méndez is a Paraguayan civil engineer and politician. She was the candidate for vice president of Paraguay for the Concertación political alliance in the 2023 general elections as the running mate of Efraín Alegre, losing to both Santiago Peña and Pedro Alliana of the Colorado Party in an electoral landslide.
Charles González Palisa was a Paraguayan radio and television presenter, recognized for his participation in benefit programs organized by the then APADEM-Teletón Foundation. At the same time, he ventured into stage acting and later into politics.
La mañana de cada día is a Paraguayan morning television program. It has been broadcast since October 16, 1989 on SNT. It is the longest running program on Paraguayan television.
Sur Televisora Itapúa, also known as Sur TV, is a Paraguayan television station located in the city of Encarnación, Itapúa. The station is a generalist outlet with national reach since 2013. For its first 37 years on air, it was a partial relayer of SNT, before becoming an independent channel within the Albavisión group.
Reinas del Paraguay is a national beauty pageant in Paraguay. It was founded in 2022 to select the Paraguayan representatives in the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, Miss Earth and Reina Hispanoamericana pageants.
C9N is a Paraguayan over-the-air news network owned by Remigio Ángel González's Albavisión conglomerate. It was an independent station from 2013 to 2017 and before, an affiliate of SNT with selected local programming.
