Spanish TV channel Canal 4 takes the trip to Ciudad del Este to explore the massive sex-trafficking that goes between Paraguay and Spain, where many women think they're going to Europe to get jobs as waitresses or domestic workers and then discover what they're asked to do.

This is only a preview. Once I locate the whole special, I'll post a link.

CAREY WALLACE | songs about books from Zeke Anders on Vimeo.

As part of a celebration of the launch of the paperback edition of The Blind Contessa's New Machine.

Gioel Martín & amigos - Palo Bonito from ACvideo on Vimeo.

Guitar, percussion, and spontaneity in the Dominican Republic.

The CDyA or Centro de Documentación y Archivo para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, an unprecedented collection of files from the Stroessner dictatorship (and of the Operation Condor agreement between the Southern Cone countries of the 1970s) is a key site for any researcher on Paraguay. The website, however, looks as if it could use some upkeep and some of the most useful links are now dead.

Here is the best online search of its database (hosted by the Washington Research Library Consortium).