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Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)
PARAGUAY POLITICS: Government comes under pressure to address flooding
The severe flooding resulting from the dramatic rise in the level of the River Paraguay has been wreaking havoc in large areas of Paraguay since unseasonal heavy rains began falling in central South America in November 2015. But with the floods now producing a humanitarian and epidemiologic emergency, the government led by President Horacio Cartes has come under fire for its failure to adopt contingency measures to deal with the crisis, particularly as in the last few years the flooding has become a recurring phenomenon.
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