Asuncion Paraguay, August 1991

(Note that August is the middle of winter in Paraguay.) This passenger train ran once a week to Buenos Aires, Argentina. It burned wood which was loaded by hand. To my young “Progressive” friends and relatives, we old folks have seen remarkable progress humans are capable of if we work together rather than fight.  Bolivia and Paraguay engaged in a terrible and costly war in 1933. Paraguay won but lost a significant percentage of its young men.