LOMA GRANDE, Paraguay — When it came time to choose a wedding venue, Margarita Gayoso and her partner Christian Ojeda knew exactly where they wanted to go. Despite living in Spain, the couple traveled ...
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — When she was a student in Paraguay, teachers forced her to kneel on jagged granules of salt and maize for entire mornings as punishment for speaking her mother tongue, Guaraní, in ...
They fear the use of their mother tongue might hold them back from success, so they encourage them to learn English instead. “Paraguay continues to suffer from a deep linguistic wound,” Verón said.