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National Geographic : 1982 Aug
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on even a short trip, for the closing gates can trap them on some isolated stretch for days. I found Paraguayan roads incredibly bad even when dry-carved into moonscapes of ruts and axle-breaking holes by the endless parade of logging trucks and rickety buses. And the bridges were more horrifying than the roads. Most streams were spanned by mismatched collections of unreliable looking logs, laid end to end between earth embankments. Mysteriously, even heavy logging trucks crossed without disaster. Still, I liked to drive out there. The 262 scenery tasted of the old Paraguay. Farmers still plow with oxen, in countryside curi ously resembling New England with palm trees added. Northern and tropical vegeta tion both thrive. In the farming communities of eastern most Paraguay the hand of government rules but lightly. Fewer than a fourth of the farmers own their land-most are squatters who simply move onto a bit of forest, clear the land, and plant their crops. But in recent years Brazilians have been moving across the Parana River in numbers, National Geographic,August 1982
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