The Chaco: the strange world of the Mennonite Colonies
June 4th 2010 After a very short night bus from AsunciĆ³n, I arrived at 4am in the city of Filadelfia, which is the largest settlement in the Mennonite Colonies that make up most of this area of Paraguay. The Mennonites are a Christian group which originated in Germany and Switzerland in the 16th century, but due to religious persecution had to flee to Russia, where they stayed until the Bolshevik Revolution i
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