"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Paraguay, despite being the most obscure South American nation to Americans, has probably the most gawdawful history of all of them. Seriously, we are talking Balkan levels of dysfunction and horror.
"Obscure" is right. I worked for the Export-Import Bank in D.C. for 20 years, and we had people traveling all over the world underwriting transactions, reviewing the engineering aspects of large projects, engaging in marketing. My recollection is we had precisely one employee, in the history of the institution, who had ever traveled to Paraguay.
Paraguay, despite being the most obscure South American nation to Americans, has probably the most gawdawful history of all of them. Seriously, we are talking Balkan levels of dysfunction and horror.
ReplyDelete"Obscure" is right. I worked for the Export-Import Bank in D.C. for 20 years, and we had people traveling all over the world underwriting transactions, reviewing the engineering aspects of large projects, engaging in marketing. My recollection is we had precisely one employee, in the history of the institution, who had ever traveled to Paraguay.
DeleteIt appears that Paraguay overcame that dysfunction and horror, if the internal economy is relatively stable.
DeleteYes, the country seems to have recovered nicely.
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