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“I am sorry,” the lieutenant said. “But no one can go near the salt
lakes. They are inside Kaa Iya National Park. It is prohibited to go there.
Tell us why you really want to go to that place in the middle of the monte .
You are looking for the savage Ayoreo, no? I recommend that you go back
to Paraguay before there is a problem here.”
But what, I asked him, about my Ayoreo companions? Surely they
could go alone, another day. It had been their land forever.
“Impossible,” he said. “They have no permits. Would you like some
Kool-Aid?”
The boys had stopped playing soccer. We were assigned an escort
with a pistol in his belt. The salt lakes laid twenty-five kilometers west
beyond a dry riverbed, but they may as well have been pictures from a
satellite or a topic. From the top of the mountain they looked like a half-
remembered fever dream, impossibly white among the heavy mottled
green.
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