Qualla: Tevego https://qualla.com/tevego en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tevego https://qualla.com/tevego Tevego: Introduction https://qualla.com/tevego/ A visitor who saw it called Tevego a place where the very air was one great mass of malaria, where the heat suffocated and the marsh never ended, and where many people would rather sit in a public prison cell than be banished there. That visitor, a Scottish merchant who knew the country well, was not exaggerating much. In 1813, on the malarial northern edge of Paraguay, the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia founded a settlement and handed it an impossible job: to hold the frontier against the people, the climate, and the disease that all conspired to destroy it. The families he sent to do it were free Black Paraguayans, asked to risk their lives on the most dangerous ground in the country.

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]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/y/y/tevego-wp/6eyy-tevego-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tevego: A Town on the Edge of Everything https://qualla.com/tevego/ Tevego was the creation of Dr. Francia, the lawyer-turned-dictator who sealed Paraguay off from the world and ruled it as El Supremo from 1814 until his death in 1840. He established the settlement in 1813 and populated it with free people of color, families the records of the er...

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]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/y/y/tevego-wp/6eyy-tevego-a-town-on-the-edge-of-everything.mp3 0:06 2 full Tevego: The People Sent to Hold It https://qualla.com/tevego/ The men and women of Tevego were not curiosities of history; they were free Black Paraguayans asked to risk everything on a frontier the state could barely supply. They built shelters in the branches of trees or from hides and mats, because there was little else. Food came from h...

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]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/y/y/tevego-wp/6eyy-tevego-the-people-sent-to-hold-it.mp3 0:06 3 full Tevego: From Outpost to Penal Colony https://qualla.com/tevego/ Once the defenders withdrew, Tevego took on a grimmer role as a prison camp. To it Francia banished men convicted of vagrancy and petty crimes, many of whom volunteered for the hard labor in exchange for shortened sentences, gambling that survival in the swamp would buy back thei...

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]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/y/y/tevego-wp/6eyy-tevego-from-outpost-to-penal-colony.mp3 0:06 4 full Tevego: The Village of the Divine Savior https://qualla.com/tevego/ Paraguay was reluctant to let the site die. In 1843, three years after Francia's death, President Carlos Antonio López ordered it resettled, this time under a hopeful new name: Villa del Divino Salvador, the Village of the Divine Savior, later shortened to San Salvador. The optim...

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