The return of the Golden Indian Take the road from the centre of Asunción and you’ll follow the bend of the river as it curves out towards the outskirts of Paraguay’s capital. Drive past the crumbling belle-époque palaces of the old aristocracy and the ersatz-Bauhaus compounds of the newly rich. Skirt the canopy of blue canvas that rings the Mercado Cuatro […]
el supremo. anthony: el supremo! gotta love it. anthony: a nearly two-hundred year succession of dictators began in 1811, when josé gaspar rodríguez de francia declared himself el supremo for life. de francia insisted paraguay become a mestizo, mixed-race society. mario: paraguayans are neither spanish nor indians. we are mestizos. anthony: yep. peter: el supremo forbid maritals between whites and whites; he produced the mestizos by force. anthony: today, ninety-five of paraguayans are of mixed spanish and guarani blood. mario: and we usually speak the two languages. anthony:right. this is central market? mario: mercado cuatro. anthony: cuatro? this is the big one? mario: the biggest one, the most popular one. anthony: i m hungry.
guido: yeah. el supremo. anthony: el supremo! gotta love it. anthony: a nearly two-hundred year succession of dictators began in 1811, when josé gaspar rodríguez de francia declared himself el supremo for life. de francia insisted paraguay become a mestizo, mixed-race society. mario: paraguayans are neither spanish nor indians. we are mestizos. anthony: yep. peter: el supremo forbid maritals between whites and whites; he produced the mestizos by force. anthony: today, ninety-five of paraguayans are of mixed spanish and guarani blood. mario: and we usually speak the two languages. anthony:right. this is central market? mario: mercado cuatro. anthony: cuatro? this is the big one? mario: the biggest one, the most popular one.
this is central market? mario: mercado cuatro. anthony: cuatro? this is the big one? mar: the biggesone, the most popular one. anthony: i m hungry. what s good here? peter: we opted for the soup from the mandi y fish. it s a little catfish. peter: and, okay, the saying is that it makes man very powerful. anthony: ahh. what s what s he got over there? that looks good. peter: gnocchi and stew. there was a good italian influence in paraguay, so maybe this stew comes from this side. colonies from all over the world. anthony: so you invite them, give them the catfish soup, make their dicks hard and be fruitful.
anthony: el supremo! gotta love it. anthony: a nearly two-hundred year succession of dictators began in 1811, when josé gaspar rodríguez de francia declared himself el supremo for life. de francia insisted paraguay become a mestizo, mixed-race society. mario: paraguayans are neither spanish nor indians. we are mestizos. anthony: yep. peter: el supremo forbid maritals between whites and whites; he produced the mestizos by force. anthony: today, ninety-five of paraguayans are of mixed spanish and guarani blood. mario: and we usually speak the two languages. anthony:right. this is central market? mario: mercado cuatro. anthony: cuatro? this is the big one? mario: the biggest one, the most popular one.