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Paraguay: Asuncion Shantytown

Thursday, September 6th, 2007 @ 02:22 UTC

by Eduardo Avila

Countries:: Paraguay
Topics:: Environment

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Paraguai: As favelas de Assunção...

Charles Lane visits one of Asuncion's shantytowns and finds most of the population makes a living from the landfill. He also posts pictures on his blog The Soybean Wars.

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