In depth recounting of my global wandering
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
No crying for me. Sunday in Argentina. In some ways, Sunday was similar to Saturday and in others different. The first difference was that, returning to the falls, we had to cross an international border. However, this must be so …