After the country’s independence, Europeans were not allowed to marry Europeans. Paraguay ended up with the largest mestizo population in the Americas (more than 80%). Therefore, the notion of white supremacy is absent in Paraguay, racism is quasi-inexistent, in what looks like a post-racial society.

 

The country’s primary passion is football (soccer). Every man talks about it.  Many wear the jersey of their favorite local or international club. During the World Cup, the economy shuts down. Olympia is the best-known Paraguayan fixture.  In 1989, they won the national championship, the Libertadores de America, and the Club World Cup.

Goalkeeper Luis Chilavert played more than 700 games and scores 67 goals on penalty.

 

The Itaipu Dam is the second largest hydroelectrical plant in the world, after China’s, Three Gorges Dam.

 

The Paraguayan flag is the only one in the world with two different coats of arms, one on each side.

 

Many Russians immigrated to Paraguay after the Bolshevik Revolution.

 

Less than 30,000 Paraguayans live in the United States.

 

Paraguay is the only country with an official native American language.

Education:

Free from pre-school to 9th grade

State University charges up to $50 a month.

Private education is available at all levels.

 

The public medical school, every year, enrolls 180 students out of 8,000 applicants.  Only the best.

Summer vacation for students extend from December 1 to February 15.

 

The headquarters of CONMEBOL (South American Football Confederation) are located in Asuncion, near to Silvio PettiRossi International Airport (formerly known as President Stroessner International Airport).

Removed by a military coup in 1989, Alfredo Stroessner was exiled to Brazil where he died in 2006, in Brasilia.

 

Coconut flowers are part of the nativity set.

 

Pistol dueling (like in the cowboy movies) is still legal in Paraguay.

161 Paraguyans control 90% of the country’s wealth.
The top 2% of the population owns 80% of the country’s fertile land.

 

The first railway line in South America, the Asunción-Encarnación line, was made by British engineers in Paraguay between 1858 and 1861.

 

Until 1991, divorce was illegal in Paraguay.

 

Lying underneath Paraguay is the largest water reserve on Earth called Acuifero Guaraní.

 

The Traveller

(Odler Robert Jeanlouie, Monday, December 17, 2018)

 

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