Talk:History of Paraguay

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This article has been wholly copied from http://www.historyofnations.net/southamerica/paraguay.html. The External Link is not the proper way to cite the source. Furthermore, the original article at the site above carries copyright notice, but perhaps the authors are one and the same.

I went to that website and it seems the articles there are taken directly from the US State Department, so it's public domain. The problem, however, lies with this article being basically the history of a country as written by the government of a foreign country, and that can't be accepted on Wikipedia. Red Star

Morever this article is missing any reference to what happened after its independence and before the 20th century, in particular the war with other Latin American states in 1860s(Under the wikipedia entry War_of_the_Triple_Alliance). I will keep note of this page and slowly add to it. Laforet 00:37, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Guaraní = 2 anthropology 3 1947 civil war 4 Jesuit-organized communist "republic"?

[edit] Guaraní =

That I know Guaraní was not originally spoken in Paraguay, it was brought there by Jesuits. Can anyone check?

Guarani was not a language brought by the Jesuits. It was a language spoken by the native indigenous population for hundreds of years before the spanish arrived. Currently, more than 90% of the population speaks Guarani and Spanish. - Mariscal8

[edit] anthropology

cant ANYONE do some anthropological research, geez! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.222.51.67 (talk) 07:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] 1947 civil war

There is NOTHING on this!

[edit] Jesuit-organized communist "republic"?

The "communisme" article in the French "Dictionnaire Encyclopedique" (Larousse-Bordas, 2000) talks, in his "History" part, about the application of the communist principles in Paraguay by the Jesuits between 1612 and 1767. Can someone point me to some further reading on the subject?

I'm really puzzled, I never thought the Jesuits could be in some way attached to common property principles. Dpotop 17:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)