In the movie “Speed,” a ludicrous thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, a terrorist plants a bomb on a bus, a bomb set to explode if the bus drops below 50 miles per hour. They never could’ve set that story in Paraguay, first they measure speed in kilometers per hour, and second the buses rarely travel slow enough to have ever been in any danger. Of course that is an exaggeration, the buses did have to stop after all, but most of the time, like every other vehicle on the road, they moved fast. There were plenty of other vehicles in Paraguay, including gas guzzling SUVs that would’ve been at home on any highway in the United States. But most people in the country travel by foot or on a bus. City buses, like those
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