On Sunday, February 3, a group of Canadians, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino Americans boarded a minibus in the capital city of Paraguay for a two-hour trip. The seven individuals were headed to see plots of land they had either already purchased or were thinking of buying in rural La Colmena, population 5,234. Investing in a country they had never been to before, thousands of miles away from home, didn’t seem to daunt them…