Paraguay Edition
Looking Back at 1900 Day leads today's complete edition for Paraguay.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
Bengal is the heart of the nationalist movement. The British partition of Bengal in 1905 has inflamed Hindu-Muslim tensions. The jute mills of Calcutta employ thousands. The countryside is poor and getting poorer. The monsoon still decides who eats and who does not.
The anniversary of Francisco Solano Lopez's death at Cerro Cora in 1870, the last battle of the War of the Triple Alliance. This war killed an estimated 60-70% of Paraguay's male population. Let that sink in. More than half the men in the country were gone. Paraguay's borders were redrawn, its population shattered, and the trauma is still felt in every family story that ends with "we lost everything in the Great War."
