LOMA GRANDE, Paraguay (AP) — 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 ...

A Guaraní Indigenous participant attends an event with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú in May 2024 at the Development Bank of Latin America in Asunción, Paraguay. Photo by Mar Puig/UPI ...

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 ...

Why Guaraní remains at the heart of Paraguay Of the country’s 6.9 million people, about 1.6 million reported Guaraní as their main language, according to Paraguay’s official 2024 data. Whereas, 1.5 ...