German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay

A group of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants has implanted an ideologically driven settlement in one of the country’s poorest regions

William Costa in Caazapá
Thu 27 Jan 2022 10.30 GMT

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.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/paraguay-german-speaking-covid-denialists-settlement-new-paradise

[Ocelot II]

1. You think they'd be willing to take our lunatics, too?

[global1]

2. Didn't The Bush's Have Land Holdings In Paraguay?....nt

[tanyev]

3. Yes, this will be the Utopian community that finally gets it right and succeeds.

[Harker]

4. German for Kool-Aid is...

Kool-Aid.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Unbelievable. They don't think Bolsonaro is destroying enough forests fast enough in Brazil,

so they are getting busy tearing down those life-sustaining trees left in Paraguay.

Paraguay is just the place for them, having had a fascist dictator who ruled for 35 years, a murderous racist who committed genocide against Native Paraguayan citizens, never once being condemned by the US Government. Hideous. He also gave haven to the former Butcher of Auschwitz, Nazi doctor Robert Mengele.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Stroessner

Right wingers love Paraguay. Even Rev. Sun Myung Moon bought a huge home for his followers there directly above South America's vast underground water resource, the Guarani Aquifer, 2nd largest in the world.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. Paraguay

has been a mess practically as long as I can remember (see: Alfredo Stroessner) and doesn't show any signs whatsoever of improving.