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El Paraiso Verde Website

Tucked into a lush corner of one of the poorest regions in the world is a quickly expanding oasis for Europe’s conspiracy theorists. The 4,000-acre gated colony, called El Paraíso Verde, or The Green Paradise, has been drawing a steady stream of Germans, Austrians, and Swiss who are sick and tired of European COVID vaccine restrictions, according to The Guardian, which attempted to visit the refuge before being shooed away by a guard with a long gun.

The commune’s website describes the area near Caazapá as set in a “virgin jungle” of just a handful of ancient trees that are left from the primeval forest, which the owners say has been “robbed of their old noble wood trees. These were manufactured into windows, doors, roof trusses and furniture.”

The area is owned by Erwin and Sylvia Annau, who are hoping to build a community “large enough to preserve the culture of the individual ethnic groups, their language, values, as well as science and education.” The initial goal is to draw around 6,000 European immigrants to settle into a handful of small communities, they say on the website. The group didn’t immediately respond to an email from The Daily Beast for information on pricing or potential issues with the Paraguay government.

Read more at The Daily Beast.