A Typical Small Town

From this jumble of signs, you see the busy commercial nature of Paraguay that I mentioned. The typical town has a stretch of this along the main road, and then less dense development off that main road. You see many people walking, balancing baskets on their heads, or leading cows, or carrying bundles of things like sugar cane.

Paraguay deserves more love...

December 22nd 2006
...than I gave it. Looking back at what I wrote and the pictures I posted yesterday, I see that I---unintentionally---painted a very bleak picture of Paraguay. I didn't realize it yesterday but, really, I think it was just that a) I didn't have many pictures, due to the rain, and the ones I had negatively depict the country 2) the rainy day gave me the blues and c) I didn't have time to really ... read more

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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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