Word: asuncion
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After deciphering the document and verifying its authenticity, Dr. Eulalia Guzman, the National Museum's chief of historical research, led an expedition to Ixcateopan. There, beneath the altar of Santa Maria de Asuncion, diggers uncovered a huge stone slab with a large oval copper disc. Under a small cross at the top were the words Senor y Rey. Beneath them was the name Coatemo (one of the alternate spellings of Cuauhtemoc...
...four days dusty, backward Asuncion looked like the set for a high-budget Warner Brothers' production. Under the palms, military attaches in fancy uniforms and foreign ambassadors wearing bright-hued sashes danced Paraguayan polkas with the dark-eyed daughters of Asuncion society. Workers in pink shirts and red bandannas paraded under the unseasonably hot winter sun. The troops showed off their best uniforms and equipment, while the new President, standing in an open car, dashed about the capital with a bodyguard...
...went off without a hitch, the reason was that the army and police had rounded up everyone able to cause trouble. Some suspects had been dragged off to jail to sit out the ceremonies; many another had been told to stay out of Asuncion for a while. But the really dangerous enemies of the regime had long ago gone underground, or been sent to Asuncion's red-walled prison or to the isolation of the Pena Hermosa concentration camp in the steaming Chaco...
...that not more than a few political prisoners were still behind bars. Lola showed me documents proving that more than 1,200 still rot in the filth of Paraguay's jails. If I wanted to see for myself, Lola said, she could arrange to slip me into the Asuncion jail as a visitor...
Next afternoon, unshaven and dressed in rags, I joined some 30 shabbily dressed Paraguayans in the unpaved street before Asuncion's decaying prison close by the river front. An old man carrying a package of medicines for his son got me past the swarthy Indian guard...