Word: guarani
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...gift of sugar laced with arsenic wiped out the Tapaiuna Indians. Another Mato Grosso tribe was first shot up by a band of gunmen, then bombed from the air by dynamite sticks tossed from a low-flying Cessna. In Parana, where land prices are particularly high, the Guarani tribe has fallen from 5,000 members to 300 in the past ten years. There, the government says, farmers and Indian Service workers often sold Indians as slaves and tortured them for the sheer pleasure of it. The harassment and murder has become so widespread, in fact, that it is hard...
...Alfredo Stroessner, the country's 1,900,000 people do not have democracy in the U.S. sense, or much hope of achieving it in the near future. But the regime is growing more benign, and Paraguayans are beginning to know a little prosperity. Attracted by rocklike stability (the guarani at 126 to the dollar has not budged in five years), foreign investment has increased steadily. U.S. firms have spent more than $25 million to build meat-packing plants, a bottled-gas facility, a hydroelectric station and an oil refinery. Last year, exports (mainly beef, lumber and cotton) earned...
...first performed, he was immediately established as Argentina's leading composer, and his recent string quartets and symphonic works have made him the ranking voice of his continent. His early music is full of native instrumentations and folkloric themes-Panambí is based on a legend of the Guarani Indians. "In my early works," he says, "my music had a nationalist flavor. I call that my objective period. Little by little my work has become more abstract and more subjective, until now I have reached the surrealist stage...
...sent intelligence agents on house-to-house searches ashore, put three destroyers, 18 warplanes, and some helicopters to patrolling the gulf itself, and lined up five warships at the seven-mile entrance, where the depth is only 60 ft. For top security, ships communicated with one another in the Guarani Indian dialect, spoken by Paraguayan naval cadets aboard the Argentine vessels for training...
...field trip into the region and met some comparatively advanced Indians dragging three captives who spoke an unknown tongue. He discovered that the captives called themselves Xetsá (pronounced shee-tahss). He studied their language superficially and then apparently dismissed them as a branch of the well-known Guarani people...