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Rocky road: Paraguay’s new Chaco highway threatens rare forest and last of the Ayoreo people

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Guardian (International Edition)

Publication Date
2022-01-05

In 1972, Catholic missionaries entered the Chaco forest of northern Paraguay and forced Oscar Pisoraja’s family, and their nomadic Ayoreo people, to leave with them. Many perished from thirst on the long march south.

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/05/rocky-road-paraguays-new-chaco-highway-threatens-rare-forest-and-last-of-the-ayoreo-people