Isaias Fernández may be just a teenager, but he has a dream. “To have my own cow one day would fulfill a dream — the dream of being near freedom,” says the 16-year-old as he herds 20 or so cattle up a ...

One evening in 2017, María Hilda collapsed. She was at home in Limo’y 2, a farming colony of around 100 families in Alto Paraná Department, 15 miles from the Paraná River, which acts as a floating ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay,, Aug. 26 (UPI) --Paraguay unveiled one of the region's most ambitious cultural preservation projects with the launch of Proyecto Guaraní-Revista Ysyry, a digital archive and ...

Featured in numerous news articles, NPR and 60 Minutes, the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura is one of how art can elevate the human spirit despite crippling poverty. And the musicians are ...

Upon first glance, Ricardo Nagaoka's photographs look like they're of Japan. Asian faces are surrounded by hallmarks of Japanese culture: ikebana, origami, baseball and kimonos. It's subverting this ...

Two historic manuscripts missing for more than thirty years returned to Paraguay during a ceremony at the Government Palace in Asunción this week. The works - ordinances signed in 1598 by Governor ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Ahead of her 15th birthday, Diana Zalazar's body had gotten so big she could no longer squeeze into the dress she bought for her quinceañera to celebrate her passage into ...

A few weeks ago, Paraguayan Congressman Carlitos Rejala sent us a translated version of legislation seeking to clarify the legal status of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in his country. Coming ...

Lovely polkas and pulsating galopas were part of Paraguay Omimbipa, a folkloric performance from Paraguay staged at the Cairo Opera's main hall on 14 and 16 May On 14 and 16 May, the Cairo Opera House ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, is travelling to Asuncion, Paraguay to participate in the VII Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Culture ...

Paraguay is a small, open, land-landlocked country dependent on increasing external trade for future economic growth. Good road infrastructure is a vital ingredient of expanding trade by reducing ...

BIOGRAPHY: The Lives of Eliza LynchBy Michael Lillis and Ronan Fanning, Gill & Macmillan, 320pp. €24.99 THIS BOOK WAS made possible by the survival of the memory of a woman who was known in Paraguay ...