Is this a conspiracy? Why are so many asking: “Where is Paraguay? ”? Why is everyone stunned that anyone would visit Paraguay? No, Paraguay is not in Asia, not in Ireland, and not inside Uruguay? It is not either a product of J.K. Rowling’s fertile imagination introduced in the latest installment of Harry Potter.

 

One would, however, agree that the American MSM (main stream media) have not given much antenna time or front-page acreage to Paraguay. This explained by the fact that the country is not fabricating nuclear weapons, not exporting terrorism, not “sending” refugees, not having a Sunday morning coup d’etat, and has never suffered from an earthquake or a tsunami.

 

However, most people have heard about one of these four Paraguayan names: Alfredo Stroessner (dictator), Jose Luis Chilavert (goalkeeper), Cindy Taylor (model and actress), and Larissa Riquelme (model and actress).

 

My motivation to visit Paraguay is both affective and nerdy.

 

Two decades ago, during my post-graduate training, I met Blanca. She had a German last name and a sultry accent. She was a wonderful piece of art with a genuine beating heart. She was a mysterious and attractive composite in a physician wardrobe, She came from an exotic caliphate called Paraguay. I promised her that The Traveller, one day, would visit her country.

Among the 33 countries and 12 dependencies in the Americas, only two are completely landlocked: Bolivia and Paraguay. I visited Bolivia in 2012. Therefore, I am here in Paraguay to both keep a promise and shorten my bucket list.

 

Many of you who followed the well-publicized demise of Alfredo Stroessner in 1989, contemporaneous of the fall of the Berlin Wall, may be asking what happened to the Paraguayan people, in this new-era of ubiquitous enhanced capitalism.

 

At the end of our series of reports, your likely questions will be answered:

– How do Paraguayans look and live in comparison to their Brazilian and Argentinian neighbors?

– Why are there so few of them living in the United States?

– Do they have a pre-Lent carnaval?

– How do they pay for housing, healthcare, education, and retirement, the worries of all Americans?

Just hang on.

 

The Traveller

(Odler Robert Jeanlouie, Friday, December 14, 2018)

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