This article I read today in The Economist does a superb job in revealing the history of Paraguay. I knew as much as the Triple Alliance War and how that wrecked the country, but not much more than that. Further, I did not know the reasons for that war from the standpoint of Paraguayan figures. Paraguay has been a mystery and afterthought to me for years, until now.
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