This article makes for an interesting read, and pretty accurately captures Paraguayan schools. This article might say it best:
Schools in poor parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa often have no books or teaching materials other than a chalkboard. The method of instruction is rote repetition. Teachers sometimes don’t speak the same language as their students. Absenteeism — among teachers, not just students — is astronomical, and some teachers just never show up at all.
A clip from the movie The World According to Monsanto that talks about the reality of genetically modified crops and pesticides in Paraguay:
I recommend listening to this backyard chicken story (starting at minute 14): http://risk-show.com/podcast/in-the-flesh/ Thoroughly entertaining (thanks to Alex for sending it) and unrelated to Paraguay, except for the cuckoo-ing fact check that has been proven by Paraguay. The story talks about how his backyard rooster was causing problems because he was crowing at all times of the day, instead of just ast sunrise. Turns out that roosters crow at ALL times of the day, often times all night as well, this has been proved thousands of times over in Paraguay.
From the Crowing section of the Rooster Wikipedia page: The rooster is often portrayed as crowing at the break of dawn (“cock-a-doodle-doo”) and will almost always start crowing before 4 months of age. He can often be seen sitting on fence posts or other objects, where he crows to proclaim his territory. However, this idea is more romantic than real, as a rooster can and will crow at any time of the day. Some roosters are especially vociferous, crowing almost constantly, while others only crow a few times a day. These differences are dependent both upon the rooster’s breed and individual personality. He has several other calls as well, and can cluck, similar to the hen. Roosters will occasionally make a patterned series of clucks to attract hens to a source of food, the same way a mother hen does for her chicks.
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