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Business Matters: Paraguay Heist Sparks Deadly Gun Battles

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Paraguay Heist Sparks Deadly Gun Battles

26/04/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Paraguay Heist Sparks Deadly Gun Battles

Brazilian gangsters take advantage of anarchy in south eastern Paraguay.

Brazilian gangsters take advantage of the anarchy of south eastern Paraguay to carry out what is being called the heist of the century. A raid on a security company which blew up a building and killed a policeman, and may have netted as much as $40 million. The BBC's Daniel Gallas gives us the latest and Professor Peter Hakim is with the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington explains why this area of South America is a cause for concern. 

Ivanka Trump is widely known as the First Daughter, although she does now have an official title and role - presidential adviser. On Tuesday at a women's summit in Berlin she was booed after describing her father as a "tremendous champion of supporting families."  There have also reports that some of her clothing line has been relabelled and sold to a discount chain. So how will Ivanka be dealing with all this? We ask Vanity Fair's Special Correspondent, Sarah Ellison.

Today the music industry is celebrating some good news: a rise of almost 6 per cent in sales last year. Thanks in part to a 60 per cent rise in revenue from streaming. That's where you don't download the music onto your device. The BBC's Will Bain reports. 

All this and more discussed with our two guests on  on opposite sides of the Pacific: Joanne Griffith  of Marketplace, in Los Angeles and David Moser, Academic Director, CET Beijing Chinese Studies  in Beijing.

(Photo: Guards and police inspect a vault that assailants blew up in the early morning in Ciudad del Este. Credit: AP.)

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