· June, 2006

Stories about Paraguay from June, 2006

Paraguay: Ycuá Bolaños Tragedy

22 June 2006

Posthegemony describes a visit to the site of the Ycuá Bolaños tragedy in Asunción “in which over 400 people died when the supermarket owner ordered the doors locked so that shoppers wouldn't rob the store of its produce en route to escaping with their lives.”

Trinidad & Tobago: Auf Wiedersehen, Deutschland

  20 June 2006

“So God is a Paraguayan, it seems,” writes Jeremy Taylor in response to Paraguay's 1-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago this evening at the World Cup, and answering a question he raised in an earlier post where he described the scenes in Trinidad: “Even the banks are closing early so...