Maká Indigenous people fight to protect their sacred land in Paraguay from government bridge plans.

The Maká Indigenous people in Paraguay are battling to retain a sacred 828-acre land called Fray Bartolomé, granted to them in 1944 for their bravery during the Chaco War. The government plans to use part of the land for a bridge, and negotiations have not yet resolved the dispute. The Maká fear losing their cultural heritage and ancestral burial sites.

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