Hare Visits U.S. Embassy in Paraguay

Amb. Paul Hare, Senior Lecturer at Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently traveled to Paraguay and Uruguay to complete research and gain background knowledge for his IR 410 Latin America Today course. During his trip, Hare visited with the United States Ambassador in Asunción, Paraguay, Leslie Bassett, who brought up an interesting connection between Boston University and the U.S. embassy in Asunción.

According to Bassett, the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University played a crucial role in recovering a time capsule deposited in the embassy garden when the building was inaugurated in 1956. There are plans underway to redevelop the site of the embassy in Asunción, and Bassett was hoping to recover the capsule before the project started.

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Hare Visits U.S. Embassy in Paraguay

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