Tag: Indigenous in Paraguay

Mennonites and Indians in the Chaco II

Post author By Cindy
Post date November 10, 2016
4 Comments on Mennonites and Indians in the Chaco II

I love endless stretches of road like those

Lomo Plata hosts many indigena in search for work. They just hang around at factories, dressed in poor, dirty clothes, arriving in truck loads. I am surprised when I see a Mennonite woman being homeless and asking for a rather big donation.

Tags Filadelfia, Indigenous in Paraguay, La Patria, Lomo Plata, Mariscal Estiggaribia, Mennonite Community, Paraguay, The Chaco, Tracks in Paraguay, Trans Chaco Highway

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Mennonites and Indians in the Chaco I

Post author By Cindy
Post date October 26, 2016
4 Comments on Mennonites and Indians in the Chaco I

I notice the first bleak, sullen looking German-alike faces when I reach the turn-off to Hochstadt, another 35 kilometer on hard mud combined with loose sand. Whereas the average Paraguayan is hard to read, the German looking faces are reminding me of Stalin. I know Stalin isn’t German, so aren’t the Mennonites. They are Paraguayan.