[The European Conservative] Paraguay Athwart Liberaldom

How long can the South American nation withstand the onslaught from Washington and Brussels?

A fierce, nail-biting contest is being waged between Brazil and Argentina, and this time it’s not what FIFA calls “the essence of football rivalry.” Nestled betwixt the two South American giants is landlocked Paraguay, straddling the tropic of Capricorn, flanked by mighty rivers and lush forests on all sides, and split by a namesake river into a fertile south that feeds the rest and a poorer north wrestled from Bolivia in the 1930s. A 34-year-old democracy of 7.4 million, 96% Christian, and ruled by the 135-year-old conservative Partido Colorado for 66 of the past 70 years (including through the 35-year iron-fisted rule of strongman Alfredo Stroessner), the small statelet is on a collision course with Western liberalism. On one side of the struggle stands Colorado, the Paraguayan Church, and what few right-wing allies the country has been able to enlist; the enemy is a motley front made up of Joe Biden’s progressive diplomacy, the EU, the sprawling NGO-industrial complex they together bankroll, and even the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHRs). There’s a reason you’ve not heard of the Paraguayan battleground in the global culture wars. America’s GDP is 200 times larger, with Paraguay’s per capita income world-ranked between Kosovo and Fiji. Besides, the country is yet to pay a significant price for bucking the left-globalist tide on gender, such as being booted from Mercosur, the region’s common market. In the grand scheme of things, Paraguay seems not to matter.

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