A New Generation Is Changing Paraguayan Politics
A New Generation Is Changing Paraguayan Politics
While less dramatic than in the rest of Latin America, there is a transformation in Paraguay led by those born in the late 1970s and 1980s.
“Would you mind if I put some ornaments on the table?” 32-year-old Federico Filártiga, the host of the YouTube show Lomitos y Leyendas (Sandwiches and Legends), jokes with his somewhat uncomfortable guest Federico Franco as he pulls out a small flower vase, alluding to the latter’s alleged reputation as a merely decorative vice president under Fernando Lugo. For the next twenty minutes, as the two sit in the plastic chairs of a down-to-earth food stand in Asunción and chew on paper-wrapped sandwiches, the...
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