German- Speaking Covid Denialists Seek To Build Paradise In Paraguay, So. America

[appalachiablue]

- The Guardian, 'German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay.' Jan. 27, 2022. A group of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants has implanted an ideologically driven settlement in one of the country’s poorest regions.

A 1,600-hectare (4,000-acre) gated community, dubbed El Paraíso Verde, or the Green Paradise, is being carved out of the fertile red earth of Caazapá, one of Paraguay’s poorest regions. The community’s population – consisting mainly of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants – will eventually swell from 150 to 3,000, according to the owners.

The project’s website bills it as “by far the largest urbanization and settlement project in South America”, describing the colony as a refuge from “socialist trends of current economic and political situations worldwide” – as well as “5G, chemtrails, fluoridated water, mandatory vaccinations and healthcare mandates”. Immigration to the colony has stepped up since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with residents interviewed on its YouTube channel attributing their move to scepticism about the virus and vaccines.

Caazapá, a rural region dominated by cattle ranching in the heart of lush eastern Paraguay, saw a jump from four new German residents in 2019 to 101 in 2021, according to official figures. “Anti-vaxxer” immigrants have also been reported settling in other parts of Paraguay. One German citizen who lives nearby and who does business with Paraíso Verde, cited discredited conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines to explain the surge. They claimed that Paraguay’s accommodating immigration laws have proved attractive to Germans who want to “escape the matrix” and flee the “deep state and one world order”.

“Many older people are coming. They understand that many people are dying in care homes [after vaccination],” said the German, who asked not to be named. “And the others, in their 40s, are trying to bring their children over here to escape.” But the appearance of an insular colony of Europeans has been watched with concern by some in the nearby the regional capital, also named Caazapá...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/paraguay-german-speaking-covid-denialists-settlement-new-paradise
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- Caazapa, Paraguay Tourism Sites, Trip Advisor:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g3493943-Caazapa_Caazapa_Department-Vacations.html

[bahboo]

1. isn't Paraguay where a bunch of Nazis settled after the war...

interesting....

[appalachiablue]

3. Yep, Parag. sheltered Auschwitz Nazi Dr. Joseph Mengele, more,

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- Hotel del Lago in San Bernardino, Paraguay.
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'In Paraguay, a Quaint Inn with a Dark Nazi Past,' TIME, Nov. 03, 2011

SAN BERNARDINO — Experiencing the Nazi legacy in South America costs just $40. This is the rate to spend a night in the best room of the Hotel del Lago, founded in 1888 on the shores of the Ypacaraí Lake, in Paraguay, in the small town of San Bernardino, 50 kilometers east of the country's capital, Asuncion. (Read a brief history of Nazi fugitives.) Given that Paraguay does not have access to the sea, the lake is the trendiest destination for a vacation. San Bernardino, however, is notorious as the place that sheltered Joseph Mengele, the Angel of the Death, a German SS officer and physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. After Germany's defeat in World War II, Mengele fled to South America where he hid for decades.

According to unproven theories, Mengele, one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, died in San Bernardino, not in Brazil, as usually reported. Regardless, there are plenty of other phantoms from the past in this small town, which was founded in 1881 by five German families, and still hosts a German Mennonite colony. The hotel is still very popular and has a cultural center that promotes local craftsmanship. But behind its quiet façade and tropical setting, this village hides a long string of connections with Nazism. (Read about how Argentina became a Nazi haven.) Passing a 19th century Teutonic-style hall, a smiling waitress walks the visitor to the best suite of the hotel, and reveals other old stories.

The German architect Wilhelm Weiler designed Hotel del Lago. In one of its rooms, Bernhard Förster — husband of Elisabeth- Förster-Nietzsche, and brother-in-law of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, a brave explorer but also a theoretician of anti-Semitism — committed suicide. After the failure of his project to fund an Aryan colony in Paraguay, named Nueva Germania, Bernhard chose death before dishonor. In the 1930s, Nazism became popular in Paraguay,... http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2098534,00.html
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- Nazi SS Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz, 1944. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
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- Fordlandia, Henry Ford's Failed Ideal City in Brazil's Amazon 1928,
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon
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- Wiki. Germany–Paraguay relations refers to the diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Paraguay. Both nations enjoy friendly relations, the importance of which centers on the history of German migration to Paraguay. Approximately 300,000 Paraguayans claim German origin. Both nations are members of the United Nations. - History: Paraguay established diplomatic relations with Prussia in 1860. In the aftermath of the War of the Triple Alliance between Paraguay and its neighbors, Paraguay lost up to 69% of its population, mostly due to illness, hunger and physical exhaustion, of which 90% were male. As a result, Paraguay took steps to promote immigration to the country.

Several communities from Europe and Asia took initiative to settle in Paraguay. One of the first groups were a group of Germans led by Bernhard Förster and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (the sister of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche) who came to Paraguay in 1887 with 14 German families to establish and create a model community in the New World and to demonstrate the supremacy of German culture and society.[4] The settlement they established was called Nueva Germania. The settlement did not last and several people from the settlement returned to Germany, but many stayed and their descendants remain in Paraguay today. Later, groups of Mennonites arrived in Paraguay and settled in its Gran Chaco region.

In 1922, Germany opened a diplomatic legation in Asunción. Between the two World Wars there were several more waves of German immigration to the country. During World War II, Paraguay was initially in favor of the Axis powers, but, due to international pressure, Paraguay declared war on the Axis powers in February 1945. During the war, Paraguay was a major hotspot for German espionage during Operation Bolívar. After the war Paraguay received many Nazis to the country escaping capture and trial. Notable Nazis such as Eduard Roschmann and Josef Mengele moved to Paraguay.
> In 1959, Josef Mengele became a naturalized citizen of Paraguay and resided in Hohenau, Paraguay near the Argentine border. In 1954, West Germany opened an embassy in Asunción. That same year, Alfredo Stroessner became President of Paraguay. Stroessner was of German origin on his father's side and ruled Paraguay for 35 years. His time in office became known as El Stronato.

Stroessner kept close political ties with West Germany and paid several visits to the country, but relations between West Germany and Stroessner soured when the West German government pressured him to stop sheltering Nazi war criminals in Paraguay. In 1964, the West German government asked Stroessner to extradite Mengele but Stroessner angrily refused and would not strip him of his citizenship either. In February 1989, Stroessner was ousted from power and relations between West Germany and Paraguay resumed once again. After the reunification of Germany Germany continued to assist Paraguay on the road to democracy, and with investigations into human rights violations committed during the Stroessner dictatorship.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Paraguay_relations

[Joinfortmill]

2. They can join the rest of the Nazis.

[appalachiablue]

4. Indeed, Mengele and more, #3.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Right, hopefully they can rot in hell with Mengele et al.

[Irish_Dem]

5. They will probably die out quickly since they don't believe in healthcare.

[appalachiablue]

10. That's sure how it looks..

[Hortensis]

7. Social scientists must be overwhelmed with events to study,

and thrilled with both new data and confirmation of previous theories.

I was just reading that The Atlantic article on how the "Anti-vaccine right brought human sacrifice to America." What the Republicans have been doing checks all the boxes identified by analysis of a hundred societies previously practicing it.

'One big question: What distinguished the cultures that practiced human sacrifice from those that did not? Thanks to a massive historical database of the social and genetic particulars of a hundred traditional societies spread over a sixth of the planet, from the eastern Pacific to Australia and East Asia, in 2016 we got one definitive answer: “Ritual human sacrifice,” an official summary of the research said, “played a central role in helping those at the top of the social hierarchy maintain power over those at the bottom.”' ...

only 25 percent of the most egalitarian and 37 percent of those in the middle. More specifically, the researchers wrote, “human sacrifice substantially increased the chances of high social stratification arising,” “increased the rate at which” those societies “gain high social stratification,” and “stabilizes social stratification once stratification has arisen.”

Do I even need to make the point that in America since the 1970s, as a result of the reengineering of our political economy led by Republicans, Big Business, and the rich, the U.S. has become much less egalitarian, inequality and stratification have radically increased, and socioeconomic mobility has radically decreased?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination/621355/

Not exactly the same thing, but related. That article mentioned the Jonestown sacrifices/suicides at the People's Temple settlement in Guyana, which made me think of it also.

[appalachiablue]

11. I saw the article but didn't read yet, tx. Jonestown too, interesting..

[Irish_Dem]

12. I said last year the GOP liked throwing babies into volcanos.

Like primitive societies who appease the gods with human sacrifices.

[Hortensis]

13. Hope they don't get that idea for real.

As it is, the combination of their constant projection of their wrongdoing on us and all those "missing" children some insist we've been kidnapping and eating is disturbing. And now this deepening rejection of the mores of modern civilization.

So far I've been able to reassure myself that the numbers of missing children, American-born at least, have actually been declining for years. Still, I wish there weren't far too many for child protective services to keep an eye on.

Seriously for that last.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Schools with no mask mandates, and gun violence in schools.

Too late, the GOP already throws children into volcanoes for political gain.

[Hortensis]

15. True. I'm afraid the kind of people being drawn to this project

are not exactly promising for its stability.

Becoming multicultural has always been our goal and we are looking forward to having more native English speakers join the largest “alternative community” in South America, perhaps soon to be the largest in the world.

Given the current political situation and uncertainty about the U.S. 2020 presidential election we would like to especially now, invite those in the U.S. looking for refuge from a possible democratic victory and all that might entail.

Sounds like they want more white flakes.

Guardian:

Caazapá, a rural region dominated by cattle ranching in the heart of lush eastern Paraguay, saw a jump from four new German residents in 2019 to 101 in 2021, according to official figures. “Anti-vaxxer” immigrants have also been reported settling in other parts of Paraguay.

Poor Paraguay. And poor them. They should be required to hold return tickets as a condition of entry, for their own good as well.

[70sEraVet]

8. They'll end up eating each other when times get tough.

That's where 'rugged individualism' leads to..

[appalachiablue]

9. You know it, and what an ugly future..