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2 Min Read ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayan opposition lawmakers lost a bid on Wednesday to impeach President Mario Abdo over the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the South American country. Slideshow ( 4 images ) Abdo’s conservative government has faced fierce protests in recent weeks as a surge in COVID-19 cases has left hospitals on the brink of collapse and out of drugs, while the country has been slow to secure vaccines. Opposition lawmakers in the lower house of deputies put forward the motion to impeach Abdo and his vice-president. Fifty-three votes were needed f...

By Reuters Staff 6 Min Read (Reuters) - Every week, Reuters journalists produce scores of multimedia features and human-interest stories from around the world. FILE PHOTO: Emily Holloway, 24, and Brian Sussman, 23, enjoy a meal together at an indoor table at Canela Bistro and Wine Bar as indoor dining in the Bay Area resumes after being closed for months due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 5, 2021. Picture taken March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Brittany Hosea-Small Below are some stories selected by our editors, as well as explanatory context a...

3 Min Read ASUNCION (Reuters) - Thousands of Paraguayans gathered around Congress in downtown Asunción on Monday, marking the fourth day of protests amid calls to impeach President Mario Abdo over the government’s handling of the COVID-19 health crisis. Slideshow ( 5 images ) The protesters, many wearing soccer jerseys and carrying national flags, chanted “Out Marito” and “Everyone out”, while criticizing the authorities for the lack of medicines and intensive care beds amid a spike in coronavirus cases. “In the hospitals there are no syringes, there are no beds,” a young man w...

Publishing date: Mar 08, 2021  •  March 8, 2021  •  4 minute read  •  Article content ASUNCIÓN/LIMA — Sandra Contreras, camped outside Lima’s Villa el Salvador hospital, is running out of funds to pay for her mother’s COVID-19 treatment, a sign of thin welfare systems around Latin America that are dragging many into debt and poverty. “I have pawned all my things,” Contreras, 34, told Reuters between tears outside the hospital, where she has set up a hammock as she waits for news of her mother, infected amid a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the Andean nation. We ap...

Slideshow ( 5 images ) ASUNCION (Reuters) - The people of Paraguay will honor their patron saint this year online or in neighborhood parishes, as pandemic rules prevent an annual pilgrimage to a sacred cathedral for the first time in a century. The sprawling white Caacupé Cathedral, surrounded by palm trees, is widely seen as the spiritual capital of the land-locked South American nation. For more than a century it has attracted nearly a million visitors annually around the holidays, culminating on Dec. 8. But this year officials in Paraguay have largely restricted access to Caacupé, 50 kil...