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Weekly Report - 24 May 2018 (WR-18-20)

PARAGUAY: Heads roll over beef scandal

Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes dismissed his agriculture and livestock minister, Marcos Medina, and customs director Nelson Valiente last week after a scandal over the entry of 180 tonnes (t) of beef into Paraguay from Brazil without appropriate sanitary certificates. The dismissals highlight the seriousness of the case. At stake is Paraguay’s credibility as an exporter of beef – one of the country’s principal exports. But the dismissals were also the culmination of longstanding animosities.

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