I'm no longer writing on this site, but in case anyone hasn't updated their automatic feed, please join me at my new blog location to learn more about Paraguay's critical elections happening on April 20 and the fallout…

I keep getting hits from people searching for something that leads them to my entry on mate cocido, which is about yerba mate, an herb that people drink in the Southern Cone and Lebanon/Syria (and now in the global North…

Have you been following the waste crisis in Napoli? Apparently, they've decided to set a former police chief to the task of getting rid of the accumulating 100,000 tons of filth in the streets... A situation that's gott…

(A hopefully daily dose of important news about that South American country we don't hear much about.) From the press, as translated by me: "Military-Grade Grenade Found in House An undetonated military-grade granade…

.... An innumerable host of dormice not unfrequently came thronging from the southern parts of Buenos-Ayres, filled the fields, garners, and houses of Tucuman, and laid waste every thing. The swam across rivers without f…