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    <title>Qualla: El Paraíso Verde</title>
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      <title>El Paraíso Verde: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The name promises a green paradise, and the setting nearly delivers one: a gated development carved out of the rolling farmland of Paraguay's Caazapá Department, far from the noise of the wider world. That distance is the whole idea. El Paraíso Verde was built for people who wanted out of contemporary Europe, and what they were fleeing, and whether the haven they bought into was real, has made this quiet corner of Paraguay the subject of international headlines and Paraguayan courtrooms alike.]]></description>
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      <title>El Paraíso Verde: A Refuge by Design</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The colony was founded by Erwin Annau and his wife Sylvia, both from Austria. As of early 2022 it counted roughly 250 residents, most of them German-speaking immigrants from Germany and Austria, with a scattering of Americans and Canadians. Its marketing was explicit about the ki...]]></description>
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      <title>El Paraíso Verde: When the Promises Met Reality</title>
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      <title>El Paraíso Verde: Paradise in the Courts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The project's troubles soon turned financial. El Paraíso Verde is managed by a company called Reljuv S.A., and in 2023 its president, Juan Joaquín Buker, was removed amid allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds. By late October 2023, lawyers had filed ten civil complai...]]></description>
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      <title>El Paraíso Verde: An Old Pattern in New Clothes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[El Paraíso Verde is the latest chapter in a long story. Paraguay has drawn German-speaking settlers for well over a century, its cheap land and open spaces a blank page on which newcomers projected their hopes. The most infamous earlier attempt was Nueva Germania, founded in the ...]]></description>
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