Rafael Barrett Editor & Author

Rafael Barrett (1876-1910) was a Spanish essayist, journalist and social commentator whose writing on Paraguay was praised by the likes of Jorge Luis Borges and Eduardo Galeano. After a period of intense persecution and exile he died at the early age of thirty-four.

William Costa is a freelance journalist and translator in Asunción, Paraguay. He has written for the Paraguayan and international press on issues relating to the land struggles of Indigenous and campesino communities, the environment, and yerba mate.