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• For 2070 the area of habitat suitability is predicted to increase regions of the western US, Brazil and Bolivia, and concomitantly decrease in the southern US, northern Brazil, Paraguay, and central Argentina. PubMed Central (PMC)
• Russian state media, for instance, have sought to magnify the newly signed U.S.-Paraguay Status of Forces Agreement to stoke fears that the United States is seeking to encircle Brazil with a ring of client states. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Coupled with China's commercial interests in Brazil and Paraguay's status as Taiwan's only diplomatic ally in South America, a dispute between Brazil and Paraguay could draw interest from Beijing, Moscow, and Washington alike. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• El Nino typically brings heavier rains and flooding risk to Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, but below-normal rainfall to Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Bolivia, eastern Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Zero Carbon Analytics
• Impacts split asymmetrically: northern Brazil, the Amazon, Pantanal and Central America face drought; southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina face flooding; Ecuador and Peru face combined coastal flood and inland drought risk. The Rio Times
• Paraguay will remain a relatively small producer with future production increases needing to be driven by continued yield growth. Farmdoc daily
• Yield potential for the main zafra crop in Paraguay is similar to that of the US and Brazil in good growing seasons. Farmdoc daily
• Industry estimates suggest some potential for additional expansion over time, up to 741,000 acres (300,000 hectares), into the Chaco region of northwestern Paraguay. Farmdoc daily
• Voters in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay will also hold subnational elections. AS/COA

Last updated: 19 June 2026