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Challenges to achieve a National Care Policy in Paraguay

Por Marcela Achinelli.* Given that the coun­try is in the midst of a change of gov­ern­ment, it is es­sen­tial to take into ac­count some of the chal­lenges that re­main in or­der to achieve a Na­tional Care Pol­icy in Paraguay. In fact, al­ready dur­ing the elec­toral camp... More »

Ecuador: A Generous Land for Political Science

By Juan Fran­cisco Camino.* In re­cent weeks, Ecuador has cap­tured the at­ten­tion of in­ter­na­tional me­dia, re­gional politi­cians and, of course, so­cial sci­en­tists, es­pe­cially those ded­i­cated to the un­der ex­plored and mis­un­der­stood po­lit­i­cal sci­ence. More »

Women’s employment: precariousness of indeterminate duration

By Dahi­ana Ay­ala.* The cur­rent cri­sis in the la­bor mar­ket seems to be tak­ing on se­ri­ous di­men­sions, es­pe­cially for women. The la­bor pre­car­i­ous­ness that af­fects women on the verge of poverty, even ex­treme poverty, is ex­pressed in part-time, frag­mented and poorl... More »


The plight of female heads of household in the prison system

By Ivonne Aris­ti­z­a­bal.* Ac­cord­ing to data from the Na­tional Sta­tis­tics In­sti­tute (INE), 37.2% of house­holds are headed by a woman. Of these, 60% work in the com­mu­nal, so­cial, and per­sonal ser­vices sec­tor, as well as in com­merce, restau­rants, and self-em­ploy­men... More »

Pondering on the defeat of the Concertación

By Mar­cos Pérez Talia. Last April 30, a new de­feat of prob­a­bly the most im­por­tant op­po­si­tion front formed to com­pete against the Col­orado Party was con­sum­mated. The fi­nal dif­fer­ence, as huge as it was un­ex­pected, makes all ex­pla­na­tions seem valid. Here we seek... More »

Hitmen in Paraguay: A phenomenon that is becoming more complex?

By Jorge Rolón Luna.* There is no doubt that the as­sas­si­na­tion has be­come a phe­nom­e­non that pre­sents di­verse an­gles and that such a mul­ti­form face has be­come a char­ac­ter­is­tic. In May 2023 a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion thwarted an at­tack that was un­der­way, at least ac... More »

The Colorado Party: a power of divided forces

By Fer­nando Martínez Es­co­bar. The elec­toral strength ob­tained by the Col­orado Party (ANR) in the elec­tions of April 30 has re­vived the idea of the uni­fi­ca­tion of the ANR in the gov­ern­ment, but the idea of party unity is a myth that has been around for al­most 4... More »


Javier Milei and Payo Cubas. Counterpoints

By Lorena Soler.* Ar­gentina and Paraguay share a long com­mon his­tory. In ad­di­tion to the War of the Triple Al­liance, the death of Sarmiento, the ex­ile and re­turn of Perón, the re­turn of war tro­phies, po­lit­i­cal ex­iles and culi­nary transna­tion­al­iza­tion, they hav... More »