Paraguay voters elect conservative economist Santiago Pena as President

Asuncion [Paraguay], May 1 (ANI): Paraguayans, on Sunday, elected Santiago Pena, a 44-year-old conservative economist, as their new president, The New York Times reported.

This keeps the South American nation in control of the right-wing Colorado Party that has run the country for all but five of the past 76 years, as per The New York Times.

Pena's coming to power means that Paraguay, a landlocked nation of seven million