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Clippings From Paraguay & Paraguayan Forteana

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This site seems to think that Sabre Toothed Cats could have survived into modfern times, and cites an apparent shooting of one in Paraguay. Google searching failed to turn anything up... has anyone else heard about this?

geocities.com/neocryptozoo/cryptids/sabretooths.html
(homepage of the site is embark.to/cryptozoology)
Links are dead. The article as it appeared on the second site cited above can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031206120602/http://embark.to/cryptozoology

Additionally, in 1975 a "mutant jaguar" was shot and killed in Paraguay. Upon being examined by zoologist Juan Acavar, he described it as having 12-inch long sabre-teeth. Acavar felt that the animal was in fact a Smilodon, which supposedly died out over 10,000 years ago. Fearing the report would frighten the public authorities stuck with mutant jaguar story. Since the first examination nothing more has been heard of the carcass.
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The sources given for the article are "Cryptozoology A to Z" by Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman and "The Unexplained" By Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker.
 
Paraguay man crucified in public

Mr Velazquez has been on hunger strike as well as crucified
Protesters in Paraguay have staged a public crucifixion calling for a jailed former army general to be set free.
Tomas Velazquez, a supporter of General Lino Oviedo, popular among Paraguay's indigenous people, was tied and nailed to a cross outside the Supreme Court.

Mr Velazquez called on the court to review Gen Oviedo's 10-year jail sentence for plotting a 1996 coup.

Gen Oviedo remains popular in parts of Paraguay, with supporters saying his sentence was politically motivated.

He was convicted by a military tribunal in 1998 of plotting to overthrow Paraguay's government.

He was arrested after returning to Paraguay in 2004 from exile in Brazil.

Nailed tight

In the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion, dozens of Gen Oviedo's supporters gathered outside the Supreme Court for the dramatic crucifixion.

Oviedo was convicted by a military tribunal but that is illegal in times of peace

Tomas Velasquez
Protester


Profile: Lino Oviedo
Draped in banners calling for Gen Oviedo to be set free, Mr Velazquez was hoisted onto a wooden cross and tied by the arms and legs.

Nails were then driven through the palms of his hands.

Grimacing with pain, Mr Velazquez - who is also undergoing a hunger strike - demanded that Gen Oviedo's sentence be reviewed.

"The Supreme Court must review this conviction. In 1998, Oviedo was convicted by a military tribunal but that is illegal in times of peace.

"We believe that he is being politically persecuted."

The Associated Press reported that the Supreme Court said it would review the case as a matter of course.

Coup country

Gen Oviedo initially rose to prominence in Paraguay in February 1989.


Banners left onlookers in little doubt over the cause
He played a prominent part in the uprising that overthrew the regime of Gen Alfredo Stroessner and set the country on the path back to civilian government.

Before being jailed, he had his political ambitions, first within the governing Colorado Party and then as head of his own Unace (National Union of Ethical Citizens) political movement.

But his jail term stems from a short-lived 1996 rebellion against former then-President Juan Carlos Wasmosy.

He is being held at a military prison, and continues to deny plotting against Mr Wasmosy, who was Paraguay's first elected civilian president after Gen Stroessner was ousted.

During five years of exile in Brazil, Gen Oviedo indicated he was considering running for the Paraguayan presidency in 2008.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6158229.stm
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THROUGH THE WRISTS!!! !NOT THROUGH THE HANDS!!!!


sheesh.
 
ghostdog19 said:
THROUGH THE WRISTS!!! !NOT THROUGH THE HANDS!!!!
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Mr Velazquez was hoisted onto a wooden cross and tied by the arms and legs.

Nails were then driven through the palms of his hands.
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They probably would have had loads of stick off 'health and safety' if they hadn't strapped him to the cross first.
 
This couldn't possibly be a vast right-wing conspiracy that backfired, could it? Claimants were everywhere at one stage.


Paraguay president's second paternity claim dropped
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8495167.stm

Hortensia Moran
Hortensia Moran has a two-year old son

A woman who claimed Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo had fathered her child has withdrawn a paternity suit against him.

The case brought by Hortensia Damiana Moran was being dropped for "personal reasons", a judge said. Mr Lugo had agreed to take a DNA test in the case.

Another woman, Benigna Leguizamon, earlier dropped her claim against him.

The president, a former Roman Catholic priest, has admitted fathering a child with Viviana Carrillo.

A lawyer for Ms Moran told Nanduti radio she wanted to drop the claim because she was under stress, AP reported.

Mr Lugo's lawyer, Marcos Farina, was quoted as telling local media that the president "has no paternity claims against him at this time, but I have no information about whether any agreements were reached with the claimants".

The president shocked Paraguay last April when he acknowledged as his son a two-year-old boy conceived with Ms Carrillo while he was still a bishop.

The Pope released Mr Lugo from his vows of chastity in July 2008, two years after he renounced the priesthood.
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edit to fix typo
 
Paraguay again.

Sacked Paraguay bus drivers stage crucifixion protest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23874911

Bus driver lies with his hands nailed to a wooden cross during a protest in in the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 16, 2013.

The drivers said they were sacked for asking for better pay and conditions

Eight Paraguayan bus drivers and a woman have submitted to crucifixion in a protest against being sacked.

The men have been nailed to crosses through their hands for 20 days, and have vowed to continue their protest until they are reinstated.

The woman, one of their wives, joined them on Wednesday.

They are lying on the floor against a wall in Luque, a town north of the capital, Asuncion. The health of some of them is said to be deteriorating.

The manager of the Vanguardia bus company, Aufredi Paredes, said five of the drivers would be re-hired.

But Mr Paredes said the other three would receive their legal separation payments and would be found jobs in other bus companies.

Union leader Juan Villalba, one of the drivers crucified, said they would not give up their protest until all are reinstated.

Mr Villalba alleged they had been sacked after asking for overtime pay, medical insurance and state pension contributions.

"The drivers are tired of being exploited," he said.

His wife, Maria Concepcion Candia, joined the protest on Wednesday out of solidarity.

Mr Villalba said about 50 drivers in the bus company serving the capital have worked for years without receiving any benefits.
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Could have gone in the Irony Thread as well. Vid at link.

The German towns in Paraguay with a surge in European immigrants

A BBC investigation has discovered that thousands of German nationals have migrated to Paraguay in the last 12 months - to escape Covid restrictions and vaccinations in Europe.

But the pandemic is not the only thing driving this new wave of immigration.

As BBC Mundo's Mar Pichel has been finding out, many of the new arrivals say they have become immigrants in Paraguay - because they are uncomfortable with Muslim immigrants at home.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-61184479
 
This thread is being established to provide a Fortean Nations thread about Paraguay.
 
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