The World From Below

Place

Paraguay · Capital District

Asunción

Paraguay’s capital, where chef Paola Benítez waited through a November 2026 afternoon for wedding savings frozen when digital lender Ueno was ordered into resolution — and where protests accompanied the collapse.

Illustrative landscape of Asunción’s Costanera waterfront along the Paraguay River, with the Palacio de los López visible at left (Wikimedia Commons / Overkill53). Editorial place card — NOT Paola Benítez or Pedro Volpe, not from The Guardian.

Illustrative place identifier: the Costanera of Asunción along the Paraguay River (Wikimedia Commons / Overkill53). Used to identify the Asunción place card — NOT the Field Note subjects, NOT a scene from the Ueno freeze, not from The Guardian. · Credit: Overkill53 / Wikimedia Commons · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Costanera_Asunci%C3%B3n.png

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Frozen Account

Stories

The Wedding Savings She Could Not Reach

After Paraguay’s central bank ordered digital lender Ueno into resolution, Asunción chef Paola Benítez met the first conditions for repayment — and by late Friday still could not reach the money she had been saving for her wedding.