Comment: Paraguay: Versions of Unknowability.

The author reports on his experiences on living in Paraguay because of his job as a public affairs officer of the U.S. embassy. He recounts his meeting with a television (TV) journalist at the empty Plaza Uruguaya in Asunción on April 23, 1996 because the people believed that a military coup was about to go down. He also recalls the political violence in the country from 1954 to 1989 under the regime of General Alfredo Stroessner.