Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The “new Panama Canal” – that’s how some are hailing a highway now under construction in South America that spans the continent, ...

The “new Panama Canal” – that’s how some are hailing a highway now under construction in South America that spans the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Bi-Oceanic Corridor cuts through ...

With Bible in hand as a shield against adversity, Paraguay's Mennonites have celebrated their bounty 85 years after settling in the inhospitable plains known as El Chaco. Established in 1927 by ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The scorched lowlands of the Paraguayan Chaco, once known as “the green hell”, are hardly the most welcoming ...

Decades after officials worried they might be sheltering the infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, members of the Mennonite sect in Paraguay are coming to terms with their historical ties with the ...

This progressive Mennonite congregation has departed in more ways than these from the customs of their forebears. Mennonites have lived in Paraguay since the 1920s, mostly in the miserably hot Chaco, ...

Joel E. Correia has received funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, and several university grants. The opinions expressed in this article are the author's and do ...

The “new Panama Canal” – that’s how some are hailing a highway now under construction in South America that spans the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Bi-Oceanic Corridor cuts through ...