Greg Ross

Paraguay is moving from the periphery to a rising investment hub in Latin America. Strong growth, new investment-grade ratings, and expanding sectors (manufacturing, energy, forestry) are driving momentum. But infrastructure gaps and energy constraints remain key challenges. Read more: buff.ly/WbhkzC7

Paraguay's move from the periphery: A convergence of factors is integrating the country into regional value chains and fueling growth globalamericans.org/paraguays-move…

Currency issued for Paraguayan banks (1900 / 1922), engraved in New York by American Bank Note Company

6.6% growth for Paraguay in 2025 — leads the region and is highest figure since 2013 (commodities boom), with today’s growth driven by services and a diversifying economy

Para @bbcmundo, mis comentarios sobre la creciente cooperación en seguridad entre EEUU y Paraguay bbc.com/mundo/articles…

Beautiful 🇵🇾 during this week’s @el_BID annual meetings

Paraguay en el nuevo eje de Washington

S&P lifted Paraguay’s credit score, granting the South American nation its second investment-grade rating bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

En la fecha, la Embajada del Paraguay fue sede del evento “Strategic Convergence: U.S.–Paraguay Partnership for a Shared Economic Future”, organizado conjuntamente con Global Americans. El evento contó con la presencia del Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Embajador Rubén Ramírez Lezcano.

TODAY: Global Americans and @agendaCAF are launching the High-Level Working Group U.S.-Paraguay, which will identify opportunities for the two countries to strengthen their partnership. Watch the launch event at 10am ET / 12pm Paraguay at this link: buff.ly/9dm4DSi

Paraguay likely to be Latin America's fastest growing economy in 2025, ahead of Argentina—and become only LatAm economy to grow at least 4% in each of the past 3 years

Momentum for Mercosur as it renews trade talks with Canada, signs EFTA deal, and EU begins ratification process

La ruta a Chaco'i

1917 street map of Asunción + tranvía lines in red

Mate set, made in Caacupé, given to Roosevelt by Morínigo during White House visit (held in FDR presidential library) fdrlibrary.tumblr.com/search/Paraguay

...and yet, with the advent of air, and the advent of better roads, we look forward to the day when more Americans can go there, and go there as a natural and logical part of their visits to the other countries of the hemisphere.” catalog.archives.gov/id/122198015?o…

Paraguay's Higinio Morínigo with Franklin D. Roosevelt, White House, 1943 FDR: "Because of geography, it has been very difficult for us—as Americans—to go to Paraguay. We thought of it as an interior Republic, far up one of the greatest rivers of the continent...

1925 map of proposed Villarrica-Iguazu and Asunción-Resistencia extensions (BsAs and Pacific Railway)

US Department of Commerce map of Paraguayan railroad system + proposed extensions to Brazil (1926)

The Paraguay-Paraná river system is South America’s most commercially important river route. It stretches over 2,000 miles, it connects more than 100 inland ports, and its major new projects are attracting U.S.-China competition, writes @gregory_ross: americasquarterly.org/article/u-s-an…