Unesco has stated that Chipa is Argentine and Parag …

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An unusual dispute arose between Argentina and Paraguay due to a misleading UNESCO publication on social networks, which identified chipa as a typical River Plate recipe. Paraguayan Internet users quickly went to the crossroads of the international organization and reminded him that his country had legally adopted Chipa as a national food. After the controversy, which included the intervention of the Paraguayan Chancellery, UNESCO had to abolish this post.

"Chip, chip … Chipa !!! Wait, do not you know what Chipa is? We present this delicious cheese bread from the Yabotí Biosphere Reserve in Argentina! "This is the message that caused the scandal: UNESCO has described this product as a tasty bun made from cbadava starch and invited its followers to prepare it." The error was revealed because the credit of the photo accompanying the publication made it clear that it was on a Paraguayan page.

Although chipa is also present in Brazil and northeastern Argentina, Paraguay is the country that traditionally consumes and generally throughout its territory.

The Paraguayan Foreign Ministry issued a harsh statement in which it questioned UNESCO 's mistake and said that it had sent an explanatory note to the organization "l & # 39; s 39; informing of the legal protection that this traditional cultural manifestation of our nation, inherent to the national identity and officially recognized by the Paraguayan State ".

The text stresses that chipa is a food constituting "a traditional gastronomic product of Paraguay", declared intangible cultural heritage by the National Secretariat of Culture "since 2014", also highlighting that this food has a national day of Chipa ", instituted on second Friday of August from that same year.

After this was corrected, they celebrated the effect of their intervention. "A rapid reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the national representation before UNESCO exercised by the Embbady of France has resulted in the ratification of" Chipa Paraguaya "as a real food of Paraguay, by tradition and by treatment techniques, "they stressed.

The recipe is a Spanish Guarani-Jesuitic heritage and that is why, besides Paraguay, it is also consumed in other countries of the region because, in the 17th century, when the Jesuit missions arrived in South America to evangelize the natives there was currently no territorial division between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.