[Time]The U.S. and China Are Battling for Influence in Latin America, and the Pandemic Has Raised the Stakes
When Alex Almeida surveys his family farm in a rural corner of landlocked Paraguay, he sees mainly fields, punctuated by small houses with sheet-metal roofs and, in the distance, native lapacho trees blooming with bright yellow flowers. But despite the isolation, there’s only one place in the world the ...