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✛ Paraguay’s Neglected are my Neighbors ✛

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps. All quotes are either in Spanish or are my translations.)

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I was feeling a little weak today and decided to walk-splore instead of run. Just a kilometer or so from my little abode, on the same hillside, the infrastructure stops. The cobblestone roads turn into rutted trails an...

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

This is my way of taking action to make my words speak a little louder. My method is transparency in what I am doing and reporting about my service to the Peace Corps, which is a branch of the U.S. government.

TO CLARIFY: The Peace Corps is a non-partisan agency within the executive branch of the U.S. government. It has presidentially appointed directors, is supervised...

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

What I Reported to the Peace Corps: Volunteer Reporting Form

As opposed to the government in this freedom of the press suppressed Paraguayan oligopoly, I want to make my inter-cultural experiences, efforts and observations transparent. Minus the details of my community contact information and the code boxes checked for the Peace Corps’ statistics compiling, such as; ...

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

Today marks 20 years of a “general” strike here in Paraguay, mainly led by union leaders rallying the teachers and farmers, and human rights groups and students rallying themselves. The sad thing is that a lot of the striking working-class posse aren't thoroughly informed as to why they’re shutting down traffic, but instigated to participate based on propaganda fe...

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

In the mid-2000s motorcycles started pouring onto the Paraguayan market. Rebranded Chinese rides like Moto Star, Kenton and Yamazuki were not only affordable to the masses with no money down financing yah-yah, but with no drivers test nor need to know how to ride, they could be purchased on a whim by just about anyone; and they were.

Not surprisingly, this lawlessness ha...