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Parent topics
- Latin America [r]: The region of the Americas that shares a common tradition and historical heritage of European colonization, mostly Iberian. [e]
- South America [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Southern Cone [r]: The southernmost part of South America, always including Argentina, Chile and Uruguay; sometimes all or part of Brazil, as well as Bolivia and Peru [e]
- Spanish language [r]: A Romance language widely spoken in Spain, its current and former territories, and the United States of America. [e]
Subtopics
Geography
- Asuncion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ciudad del Este [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Concepcion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Encarnacion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pedro Juan Caballero [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Coronel Oviedo [r]: Add brief definition or description
History
- War of the Triple Alliance [r]: Bloodiest South American war pitting Paraguay against alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (1864-1870). [e]
- Alfredo Stroessner [r]: (1912-2006) Paraguayan general who took control of Paraguay in a military coup; dictator from 1954 to 1989. [e]
International cooperation
- MERCOSUR [r]: A free trade agreement among some countries of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay) and Canada [e]
- Operation Condor [r]: A secret security operation among the military governments of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, beginning in 1975 and ending with democratization in the 1980s and 1990s; descriptions range from counterintelligence and counterterrorism to state terror [e]
- U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1970s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1970s [e]
- World Trade Organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
Government
- President of Paraguay [r]: Head of state and head of government of Paraguay, currently Fernando Armindo Lugo-Mendez [e] Fernando Armindo Lugo Mendez
- Vice President of Paraguay [r]: Add brief definition or description Luis Federico Franco Gomez
Diplomacy
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay [r]: Add brief definition or description Hector R Lacognata
- Paraguayan Ambassador to the U.S. [r]: Add brief definition or description James Spalding Hellmers
- Paraguayan Ambassador to the OAS [r]: Add brief definition or description Bernardino Hugo Saguier Caballero
- Paraguayan Ambassador to the U.N. [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionJosé Antonio Dos Santos
- U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay [r]: Add brief definition or description Liliana Ayalde
- Michael Ranneberger [r]: U.S. Ambassador to Kenya; a Foreign Service Officer previously an advisor on Sudan, U.S. Ambassador to Mali, and involved in Cuban policy and operations in Somalia, Angola, and Haiti; democracy promotion and peace operations in Paraguay, El Salvador and Guatemala [e]
Arts
- Jorge Luis Borges [r]: An Argentinean author best known for his Magical Realism short stories. [e]
Biology
- Alipiopsitta xanthops (Yellow-faced Parrot) [r]: A species of the genus Alipiopsitta, found in the cerrado region of Brazil and adjacent Bolivia. [e]
- Aspasia (orchid) [r]: Is an orchid genus formed by seven species spread from Costa Rica to South Brazil and closely related to the genus Miltonia. [e]
- Crotalus durissus [r]: A venomous rattlesnake species found in Mexico and South America. [e]
- Leptotes (orchid) [r]: A genus of orchids formed by nine small species that exist primarily in the dry jungles of South and Southeast Brazil. [e]
- Miltonia [r]: An orchid genus formed by nine showy epiphyte species and seven natural hybrids of Brazil, one species reaching Argentina and Paraguay. [e]
Other related topics
- Extrajudicial detention [r]: The policy and practice of holding prisoners captive without judicial authority to do so, or without a recognized authority under international law, such capture of prisoners of war [e]
- Interrogation [r]: A systematic process of direct questioning, of a person in detention or otherwise under the control of the interrogator, to obtain reliable information to satisfy criminal investigation or human-source intelligence requirements, within the scope of relevant law and policy [e]
Neighboring countries
- Argentina [r]: Second largest South American country; speaks Spanish. [e]
- Bolivia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brazil [r]: Largest country in South America with a population of 190 million people and rich resources; Portuguese is the national language [e]
War criminals
- Josef Mengele [r]: Nazi physician at Auschwitz, involved in direct killings and unethical medical experiments on humans. Escaped prosecution and later died while swimming in Paraguay. Considered one of the last escaped major war criminals. [e]
- Klaus Barbie [r]: Head the Nazi Gestapo in Lyon, France during World War II; sentenced to life in prison for war crimes. [e]
- U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II Nazi war criminals [r]: Actions by intelligence agencies, primarily in the U.S. Army, where Nazi strongly suspected of war crimes were not prosecuted in exchange for information, such information on the Soviet Union [e]
