Often overshadowed in world history, the Paraguayan War was the bloodiest conflict in Latin America and one of the most devastating wars ever fought by a single nation. This video traces how regional ...
Two hummocks in a bog are Forts Munoz and Nanawa, 60 mi. apart in the sopping Gran Chaco jungle between Paraguay and Bolivia. Last December the Paraguayans, South America’s fiercest fighters, had ...
Last week marked an anniversary. For exactly five months Bolivian and Paraguayan soldiers have been fighting and dying in the steaming swamps of the Gran Chaco without an official declaration of war.