Asuncion's options in trade relationships are constrained by geography.

This is an internal Stratfor document listing significant meetings and events for the next week.

Financial and political constraints will make it harder for many governments to maintain balance in the coming months.

The country is entering a new period of economic uncertainty.

The diverging black-market and official values of the peso will worsen Argentina's ongoing economic turmoil.

Farmers' grievances about the government's economic controls may mean trouble ahead.

The move is a response to the International Monetary Fund's censure over misreported inflation data.

The country's economic interests could threaten the unity of Mercosur.

Generational changes worldwide will be hard to deny in 2013.

Higher wheat prices could mean domestic unrest in Egypt at an inopportune time for the Muslim Brotherhood.