paraguay

"When a children's orchestra in Cateura, Paraguay, grows to have more students than instruments, music teacher Favio Ch?vez works with a brilliant local carpenter to create instruments out of garbage from the local landfill"--Provided by the publisher.

Offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of nineteenth-century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where Europeans and North Americans intermingle with both the old Spanish aristocracy and native Guarani Islands.

Documents the murder case of Joelito Filartiga, a Paraguay boy who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the Paraguayan police. Describes how Joelito's father, Dr. Joel Filartiga, pursued justice and worked with the United States government to arrest and try the policeman responsible for his son's death, who was hiding in America. Explains the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789, which allows U.S. courts to try international cases on behalf of foreign human rights.

Follows anthropologist A. Magdalena Hurtado as she lives with and studies the Ache Indians of Paraguay, as well as discussing how and why she became an anthropologist.

Photographs and simple text describe the structure and function of the Itaipu Dam, located in South America.