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This slice of 17th and 18th century western history is a saga of love, savage violence, and betrayal that reads like fiction While it is centered on a famous Roman Catholic order, its international and religious scope makes it of interest to armchair historians of all beliefs including Protestants, Jews, agnostics and secular humanists. In colonial South America the Jesuits established missions among the Guaraní. As the Portuguese and Spanish slavers descended on Paraguay, the Jesuits sought to protect these stone-age Indians in their missions. Their resistance to the colonists attacks contributed to the political problems of the church with Catholic monarchs back in Europe. As a consequence, the monarchs pressured a frightened pope to abolish the Jesuit order. In the long, tortured history of European colonization of the Americas, these Jesuit Black Robes in Paraguay stood out as a breed apart, even from their fellow Jesuits elsewhere. Leaders of the anti-Catholic, anti-Jesuit Enlightenment such as Voltaire and Raynal rallied to the side of these extraordinary Paraguay missionaries. Raynal wrote that never has so much good been done for mankind with so little evil. Ironically, the heretic monarchs of Russia and Prussia invited hundreds of the former Jesuits to run their colleges. In doing so, they inadvertently saved these outcasts to become the nucleus around which a reinvigorated papacy would re-establish the Jesuit order forty years after its abolition..
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Like a Mustard Seed tells the inspiring story of the Russian, Canadian, and Mexican Mennonites who, beginning in 1927, emigrated to Paraguay and made a new homeland out of the jungle wilderness. In the succeeding decades, Mennonite communities in Paraguay have established schools, clinics, hospitals, churches, and farms. Edgar Stoesz, who for four decades has held administrative posts with Mennonite Central Committee and other organizations serving in Paraguay, recounts this inspiring story. With faith on the Lord and by the sweat of their brow, these communities of Mennonites in Paraguay have blossomed from humble beginnings, like a mustard seed..
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The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and ahorse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asunción and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover's ill-fated imperial dream -- one fueled by a heedless arrogance that will devastate all of Paraguay.
With the urgency of the narrative, rich and intimate detail, and a wealth of skillfully layered characters, The News from Paraguay recalls the epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Pierre Clastres (1934-1979) was one of the most respected political anthropologists of our time. Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an account of his first fieldwork in the early 1960s—an encounter with a small, unique, and now vanished Paraguayan tribe. From "Birth" to "The End," Clastres follows the Guayakis in their everyday lives, determined to record every detail of their history, ritual, myths, and culture in order to answer the many questions prompted by his personal experiences. Now available for the first time in English in a beautiful translation by the novelist Paul Auster, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians will alter radically not only the Western academic conventions in which other cultures are thought but also the discipline of political anthropology itself..
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Folded travel and road map in color with eastern Paraguay on one side and the western portion on the other. Index of populated areas. Colors show elevations Legend in English and Spanish The map distinguishes international boundaries, highways, paved roads, unpaved roads, and tracks. Shows national parks and natural reserves with color shading. Icons locate international airport, airstrips/ landing ground, lakes, rivers, swamps, railway tracks, department capitols, and districts defined by population size. Scale 1:800,000. Insets of Asuncion Region (scale 1:250,000) and the city of Asuncion. The city map includes streets and a legend with icons locating pedestrian routes/ stairs, commercial areas, places to stay, churches, museums, embassies, markets, shopping areas, post offices, police stations, theaters, museums, tourist information centers, sports fields, and points of interest..
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story of assassination of Nicaraguan Dictator .
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