" We doubt the existence of Paraguay. Descendants of races Guarani indians and slaves who work by instinct in the absence of reason. They perpetuated the colonial primitive barbarism. They are ignorant of dogs which have killed hundreds and fifty thousand. Their advance, led by degenerate descendants of English, would the arrest of any progress and a return to barbarism ... The frantic, stupid, gross and ferocious drunk Solano López accompanying thousands of animals who obey and die of fear. It is providential that a tyrant has made all these people die Guarani. Was necessary to purge the land of all that human excrescence: lost race whose spread must be free. "(Letter from Sarmiento to Mitre, 1872, fragment)
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