Chickens on a Bus

You can just see the tailfeathers of this rooster that someone is transporting in some kind of leather case. We believe that the bird is alive and was being transported this way because he is a fighting rooster used in cockfights.

Riding the Bus in Paraguay

March 29th 2006
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 exaggeratio ... read more

South America » Paraguay

In the disastrous War of the Triple Alliance (1865-70), Paraguay lost two-thirds of all adult males and much of its territory. It stagnated economically for the next half century. In the Chaco War of 1932-35, large, economically important areas were ... ... read more

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