Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pedestrian passes a mural that rads in the Guarani language "Che rete, che mba'e" which means "My body is mine" in Asuncion, ...

Yet because the language’s use remains primarily oral, it rarely appears in official documents, government records and literary works. Even finding a Catholic priest who could preside over Gayoso’s ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — When she was a student in Paraguay, teachers forced her to kneel on jagged granules of salt and maize for entire mornings as punishment for speaking her mother tongue, Guaraní, in ...

LOMA GRANDE, Paraguay — When it came time to choose a wedding venue, Margarita Gayoso and her partner Christian Ojeda knew exactly where they wanted to go. Despite living in Spain, the couple traveled ...

Casco, too, learned various lessons from a medicine man that cured people in his hometown. “Knowing that prayer can heal is a legacy from the Indigenous people,” he said. Across Paraguay’s rural areas ...