article_snippet: (CNN)A lot of people have ventured to Paraguay over the years in search of some sort of a dream.
article_snippet: We were left with a cryptic reference to the news that Jean had died in Asuncion, Paraguay.
article_snippet: Which raised the questions: "What the hell was Jean doing in Paraguay?
article_snippet: " And "Where is Paraguay, anyway?
article_snippet: Landlocked by Paraguay better-known neighbors, Paraguay is probably best known for being a hideout for escaped Nazis and for a succession of truly spectacularly lurid, out-of-a-comic-book dictatorships -- the last being the administration of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner.
article_snippet: Landlocked by Paraguay better-known neighbors, Paraguay is probably best known for being a hideout for escaped Nazis and for a succession of truly spectacularly lurid, out-of-a-comic-book dictatorships -- the last being the administration of Gen. Alfredo Stroessnerescaped Nazis Nazis the administration of Gen. Alfredo StroessnerGen.
article_snippet: When I first looked at the possibility of making a television show there, many years ago, descriptions of Paraguay by visitors were not promising: crime, corruption, counterfeiters, failed institutions, looted banks -- in short, a backwater.