GM Puts Paraguay at the Center of Its Regional Strategy

Paraguay · Business

Key Facts

Who and what: Thomas Owsianski, General Motors’ president and CEO for South America, has publicly ranked Paraguay among the fastest-growing car markets in the region — “and, I think, the world.”

Not a factory: This is a sales-and-distribution push, not a new plant or an assembly hub. GM builds its regional vehicles in Brazil (Gravataí); Paraguay remains an import market.

The bestseller: The Chevrolet S10 pickup is Paraguay’s single best-selling vehicle, at roughly 4.5% of the market, powered by the country’s farm boom.