Asunción:    The tragedy Paraguay suffered is emblematic.  It carries messages of the soft vs the hard Occident, and of soft development vs hard “growth”.   And how a genocide drove out the soft. The reference is to the attack in 1865 on Paraguay by the Triple Alianza (or Quadruple): Argentina-Uruguay-Brazil, indeed encouraged by No. 4, England, … Continue reading A Paradise Lost; An Empire Gained