The Battle of Nanawa Told Through a Song: 13 Tuyutí Explained

Описание: “13 Tuyutí” is not just a song — it is a sung battlefield report from one of the most decisive moments of the Chaco War (1932–1935) between Paraguay and Bolivia.

Written in 1933 by Emiliano R. Fernández, a poet and frontline soldier of the Paraguayan 13th Infantry Regiment “Tuyutí”, the lyrics narrate the First Battle of Nanawa, where outnumbered Paraguayan troops stopped a technologically superior Bolivian army commanded by German General Hans Kundt.

Artillery, tanks, aircraft and machine guns failed to break what the song famously calls a “Living Wall” — soldiers themselves forming the true fortress of Nanawa.

In this documentary-style video, we explore:

The historical context of the Battle of Nanawa (January 1933)

Who Emiliano R. Fernández was, and why he was called the “Olive-Green Tyrtaeus”

The meaning of the “Living Wall” metaphor

The role of Guaraní identity and language in Paraguayan wartime morale

Why 13 Tuyutí remains one of the most powerful war songs in Latin American history

Nearly a century later, this song still transmits courage, memory, and national identity — not as myth, but as lived history set to music.

📜 History, poetry, and war — told from the trenches.

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