• Topix Paraguay news useful resource for current news items (in English) on Paraguay
• Lanic Newsroom: Texas Univ site for links to the recent news themes on Latin America in general

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• The Guaraní Indians From the 1911 Catholic Encyclopaedia.
• Guaraní society Examination of Guarani society from University of Kent at Canterbury
• Guaraní Ñanduti Rogue Huge site with many links to academic studies and articles on Guarani culture produced by the Unjversity of Mainz. In German, Guarani, Spanish and Portuguese, but unfortunately not much in English - yet?
• Enxet & Guaran brief but very useful outlines of tribe history & modern problems from Survival.
• The Indigenous of the Paraguayan Chaco: Struggle for the Land By Keith Slack. Gives a useful account of government policy towards the indigenous peoples in the 20th century  (1996) Cultural Survival Quarterly
• Genocide in Paraguay Article about the forced resettlement of native paraguayos
• Paraguayan Indians fight for rights BBC March 2001 Describes the struggle of the Maka tribe to defend their land rights

• From the Historia del Paraguay site (all are easily googled into English):

• Forcible or Peaceful Colonising Chapter from the 1907 work, Socialism and Colonial Policy, by the Socialist Karl Kautsky looking at the role of the church in colonising through the Reduciones.
• The Truth About the Catholic Church and Slavery  Article examining & supporting the stance of the Catholic Church (primarily in Jesuit latin America) by Rodney Stark, professor of sociology and comparative religion at the university of Washington

• Reductions of Paraguay Very detailed account from the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia
• Vanished Arcadia, A: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 the 1900 account by R.B. Cunninghame  Graham published as an Etext by the Project Gutenberg.
• Population of the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay  Graphical presentation of the population of the Paraguay Missions. very clear and thorough.  By R H Jackson. Powerpoint presentation but does not require a Reader.
• A Survey of Demographic Patterns in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay Article by RH Jackson. well documented with researched data.
• The Building of the California and Paraguay Missions: Town Development on the Fringes of Empire  R H Jackson. Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries attempted to create primitive utopian Christian communities in California and Paraguay, and the building complexes of the missions provided the template for the new ordered societies the missionaries attempted to create. this article examines their development.
• Mortality Crises in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay, 1730-1740 RH Jackson This essay examines a series of mortality crises in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay between 1730 and 1740 that is well documented in contemporary documents. Three epidemics spread through the missions in 1733, 1735-1736, and 1738-1740.
• Jesus de Tavarangue: Jesuit Missions in Paraguay  Jesuit Mission established 1685 with population from another older mission. Population data, images of mission today.  By R H Jackson. Powerpoint presentation.
• San Juan Bautista: Jesuit Mission to the Guarani  R H Jackson introduces this powerpoint with: "The Jesuits expanded their mission frontier in the Rio de la Plata region by moving existing missions to sites east of the Uruguay River, and by establishing new missions. In order to facilitate the rapid development of the new missions, the Jesuits relocated thousands of Guarani from existing missions. In 1697, the Jesuits established San Juan Bautista with (Guarani) transferred from San Miguel."  Brief historical outline of the Paraguay mission. Population data, images of mission today.   Powerpoint presentation but does not require a Reader.
• San Cosme y Damian Mission (click to download a fuller version: San Cosme y Damian Pictures, ground plans, brief text. Powerpoint presentation,
• San Miguel Mission to the Guarani RH Jackson. Powerpoint presentations
• Caminho das Missões  The Jesuit Missions in Paraguay. In Portuguese. Photos.
• Os Sete Povos: The Trans-Uruguay Missions Excellent illustrated powerpoint type survey of the Jesuit Missions as they were (from contemporary drawings, and how they are today). Good statistical data. By R H Jackson. Powerpoint pdf file.
• Spanish Missions in the Lowlands Regions of South America Thorough visual and graphical presentation of the Jesuit missions of the Uruguay/ Brazil/ Argentina/ Paraguay region. Very clear. By R H Jackson.
• The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil Plans, pictures, population data, brief textual outlines. Very thorough,  set out by modern country. By R H Jackson. Powerpoint pdf file.
• see also casahistoria catholic missions in latin america  

Politics of Paraguay

• The Lady Macbeth of Paraguay UK Guardian review of two books on Elisa Lynch
• Una Historia del Paraguay - La Familia López  Description of Lόpez and Lynch, In Spanish. But turn off the sound effects....

• Geopolitics of Paraguay: Pivotal Position within a Model of Geopolitics. Examines the geopolitical position of Paraguay, fundamental to understanding its 19th century position. From Historical Text Archive
• The Triple Alliance War, 1864-1870 Straightforward account from onwar.com
• The Triple Alliance War, 1864-70 Conflict that put the  Argentina Confederation, Brazilian Empire and Uruguay up against the Republic of Paraguay. The (somewhat confused) site tells the story and has sections on related military developments in the southern cone. At times it needs patience to use. Also: turn off the music!

John Gimlette: At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig Ostensibly a travel book, this was the surprise bestseller of 2003. It has a silly title, and a surreal cover (even more so in the US) but it is a knowledgeable voyage through the 19th and 20th century history of the Guarani homeland. In this grimly amusing book Gimlette reveals the horrors and absurdities of the past as well as the present, but reading between the lines he has an affection for this blighted country, incarcerated in the centre of a continent and the pawn of its larger and stronger neighbours - whose politicians though are no brighter than those of Paraguay. Pobre paraguayos....

 

• The Stroessner Equilibrium Complete text of a report into the Stroessner period and its aftermath. Takes a mechanistic, social scientist approach. Presented by: Instituto Desarrollo Asunción, Paraguay. Latin American Research Network, Inter-American Development Bank August 2004
• A Terrorist (& Fall-Guys) at Work in Paraguay By John Clancy, [24 Nov 2001]. Notes on a BBC Documentary (1992). After three decades of systematic persecution in Paraguay, opponents have been given complete access to detailed documents referring to a dictator's regime propped up by the West.
• Colonial past, troubled present By Kevin G. Hall, San Jose Mercury News, Sunday 18 February 2001. Paraguay—In a musty, water-stained office in Paraguay's main Justice building, thousands of documents from the darkest days of former dictator Gen. Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year reign are rotting.
• The Military Regimes For casahistoria links to the military regimes of other Latin American states at this time

For current developments to the national history themes:

• Topix Paraguay news useful resource for current news items (in English) on Paraguay
• Lanic Newsroom: Texas Univ site for links to the recent news themes on Latin America in general

 

 

Survival is currently working with around 80 tribes in 34 countries around the world. Find out more about some of these south American tribes by clicking on the links below.

 

Argentina WICHI

Brazil  AWA BRAZILIAN INDIANS GUARANI   MAKUXI YANOMAMI

Colombia ARHUACO

Paraguay AYOREO ENXET

Peru YORA

 

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