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De facto or de jure. This description of La Paz requires you to make a judgment. If you search the internet for the term “highest capital in the world”, you will almost certainly see La Paz heading the list. The …

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Bolivia, Bolivia, have you met Bolivia. As I noted at the end of the previous post, for us, Paraguay was little more than a way stop between our days at Iguazú and our time in La Paz – the capital …

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One final echo and a cautionary note. Previously I wrote about Fernando Lugo the one-time Catholic bishop who was elected president of Paraguay in 2008. Lugo’s election ended a 61-year hold on power by the Colorado Party and they were …