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May 3, 2019
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I closed the previous post with a brief and superficial description of the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. The context for this was to note that, while the country’s population had begun a slow recovery from the devastation of …
April 30, 2019
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The past is always present. While Paraguay has little impact on the world or even regional stage in the 21st century, at one time it was a regional power. Its history as an independent nation begins when Captains Pedro Juan …
April 30, 2019
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We awoke early Monday morning and set out in our little van to cross the border from Brazil into Paraguay. Traffic thickened and slowed to a crawl as we approached the border in Foz do Iguaçu but we had an …