Argentine journalist asked Paraguay for forgiveness for the war

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Rodolfo Braceli, an Argentine journalist, wrote some emotional and harsh lines to his compatriots in the newspaper Jornada: he asked forgiveness to Paraguay for the War of the Triple Alliance and invited Argentines to “reflect” on this fact.

“Regarding invasive wars: pardon Paraguayans, for centuries. Not all the news must be geographically distant, and not all of them refer to the always urgent conjuncture. How about reflecting on the present by taking charge of the past? A good opportunity, for example, to take a look at what we did to Paraguay: was it a war or was it a scandalous massacre,” said Braceli.

He claimed that in either case, war or massacre, Argentines should be ashamed. “It is never too late to ask for forgiveness and face reparations,” he commented.

“Not so long ago, Pope Francis publicly praised the Paraguayan women. He said that ‘they are the most glorious, the most heroic of America.’ He founded the resounding praise: ‘Paraguayan women knew how to raise a defeated country, sunk and submerged by an iniquitous war’. The Supreme Pontiff referred to the war of the sad Triple Alliance when Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil united to dismantle the then flourishing Paraguay. It must be said with all the letters that it was a shameful and disgraceful butchery, apart from being cowardly. In Paraguay, only the children survived, some old people and, as the Pope said, the “heroic and most courageous women of the continent,” the journalist criticized in his text.

He was inspired to write these lines by the debate generated in the social networks about the war between Russia and Ukraine.

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