Paraguay: Salvador Cabañas Using Guaraní To Express Himself

Paraguayan footballer Salvador Cabañas continues to recover from the bullet that is lodged in his brain after an altercation in a Mexico City bar. Carlos Rodríguez of Rescatar [es] notes that Cabañas has been reverting back to his mother tongue of Guaraní as a way of adapting after the injury, when he is asked to make more complex statements, such as providing testimony about the crime, and which is one of the advantages of having a bilingual culture.

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