The “new Panama Canal” – that’s how some are hailing a highway now under construction in South America that spans the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Bi-Oceanic Corridor cuts through ...

It is published twice monthly and sold in almost every colony, says Kennert Giesbrecht, who edited the newspaper for almost 22 years.

A conservative religious group called Low German Mennonites has been accused of ongoing deforestation in Central and South America and encroaching on Indigenous communities’ land. They started ...

“For me, there are two very important anthropological concepts,” says Patrick Friesen, speaking Spanish with a thick accent. He is a descendant of protestant Mennonites who left Europe to found ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — A small rebel group in Paraguay has released two Mennonite men that it kidnapped four months ago in the country's north, authorities said Monday. Mexican citizen Franz ...

Paraguay’s main guerrilla group has displaced hundreds of Mennonite families from an area not far from strategic drug trafficking routes, suggesting the group may be seeking to increase its role in ...

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