Mennonites have lived in Paraguay since the 1920s, mostly in the miserably hot Chaco, a region that was barely inhabited before they arrived, and indeed barely inhabited today.

The most conservative Mennonite colonies reject the use of rubber tires on tractors, electricity, and telephones, among other things. More progressive colonies, particularly in Paraguay, find it ...

The name of this tiny Amish-Mennonite colony, set amid the red-dirt soybean fields and palm trees of rural eastern Paraguay, is Light and Hope. But for the last few years, there has been little of … ...

COLONIA LUZ Y ESPERANZA, Paraguay — The name of this Mennonite colony, set amid the red-dirt soybean fields and palm trees of rural eastern Paraguay, is Light and Hope. But there is little of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The scorched lowlands of the Paraguayan Chaco, once known as “the green hell”, are hardly the most ...

The Mennonite’s success has come at a high cost, though, when it comes to environmental change, land conflicts and indigenous rights, my research in Paraguay finds.. The growing beef industry ...

With Bible in hand as a shield against adversity, Paraguay's Mennonites have celebrated their bounty 85 years after settling in the inhospitable plains known as El Chaco. Established in 1927 by ...

Two blond teenagers bicycle down a neatly tended sidewalk. A group of husky farmers discuss the latest harvest, in German. There are old stone houses and steepled churches and women in simple ...

A Paraguayan guerrilla group has freed two Mennonite men it had been holding hostage for five months. The two were released after their families paid a ransom and handed over food to local ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguayan authorities say a small rebel group has released two Mennonite men that it kidnapped four months ago. Authorities said Monday that Mexican citizen Franz Hiebert ...

A Paraguayan guerrilla group has freed two Mennonite men it had been holding hostage for five months. The two were released after their families paid a ransom and handed over food to local ...