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‘Magical realism’: how a fake Hindu nation tried to take over Indigenous land in Bolivia

Contracts show fictional country created by fugitive Indian guru would control vast swathes ‘with full sovereignty’Followers of a fugitive Indian Hindu guru on a mission to establish his own state are popping up across Latin America, offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy land in Ecuador, Paraguay and now Bolivia.At the end of last year, a representative of the Baure Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon signed a “perpetual” contract leasing 60,000 hectares (148,260 acres) of their vast rainforest for $108,000 (£81,910) a year. Continue reading...


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