Paraguay Blogs
Paraguayans have always been afraid to express their own minds, after such a long period of a Dictatorial Regimen, when Paraguay was still Presided by the Dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954 to 1989). Paraguayans didn’t have the right of free expression and that has become an almost build in feature for most citizens, and sadly part of their personalities after so many years of repression.
Fortunately the most daring and they younger generation are slowing changing this and opening up about different life aspects and interesting topics like:
- Citizen Reporters
- Personal Blog
- Academic Blog
- Political blog
- Bridge Blog
- Weekly Random Popular voices
Most blogs are written in Spanish, expect of Bridge Blog (Muna’s Blog) and some ex pats blogs
Citizen Reporters is a very interesting blog called Rescatar which means to Rescue and that is what they expect, to Rescue the experiences of the civil society to learn, exchange and increase replays. They also share inspirational initiatives to contribute to Paraguay’s development.
Personal Blog is written by Luz Maria Toledo, she talks about her dreams and has interesting inner reflections and comments about life with a lot of sensitivity and touch of irony.
Academic Blog talks about Masonry, free thinking, humanism and different aspects of Masonry thinking, it is written by Christian Gadea Saguier who is an architect who also has published 2 books called: “El Ministerio de los Masones” y “Los hijos de la Luz”.
Political Blog: Written by Juan Carlos Rojas a young Law student who also works for a Foundation, he searches to promote libertarian ideas and the search for solutions to problems thru the debate. He also has interesting points of view about Liberty, Communism and Capitalism.
Bridge Blog: From Seattle, WA, Muna Annahas is a Paraguay National living far away from her native country . Her goal is to provide readers a glimpse into her “largely unknown” country, she treats readers to tips regarding travel within the country, reminisces about her most recent travels back to Asunción, and what she misses most about her hometown.
As an amateur photographer she often illustrates her posts with interesting documentary photos and videos, and she writes her posts mostly in English so more people can understand and learn more about her beloved Paraguay.
El yacare is a weekly cultural blog about Paraguay’s different aspects, cultural activities, Guarani Language, native population, etc. It talks about “Pea que Amoa” which means in guarani This and that.
There are some ex pats blogs that I have to include in the next post.
Paraguay is all about the experience and now thanks to our blogger’s we can definitely know that there is much more happening than what we see in the news.
