These sentences were declared by the actual president, Horacio Cartes. Indeed, this sentence summarize the actual situation. After the dictatorship of Stroessner, ending in , Paraguay is actually under a democracy. Of course, we have to speak about a democracy for the benefit of the oligarchy, where all the excesses are allowed. You can just see it when you cross the border, in Ciudad del Este. The craziness of the city makes you walking across the numerous buildings showing the lasts technologies available meanwhile some street sellers try to sell you the worst insanities.
They just start with a shaver and electronic stuffs and they end with cocaine and cheap girls. We compare this place to the human apocalypse where everybody is here to overconsume at incredible prices. Do not think that they sell low quality products. By the way, they are all authentic at least for the electronic.
Thus, you maybe ask yourself how is it possible but do not forget that we are in Paraguay. All the products are illegally imported from United states or from Asia without paying any tax. The firsts kilometers show us a huge contrast with Brazil.
Here, people live in rustic wood houses, surrounded by fields. The cows are in the road side. The poverty is everywhere. The goal of this meeting is to make a documentary about the farmers without land As this topic is not very appreciated in Paraguay, we tried to hide as well as possible our movie report to avoid the problems. To understand the agriculture in Paraguay, it is important to start with its beginning.
For the reasons mentioned before, year after year, the industry has seriously grown. A lot of Brazilians have crossed the border to get a piece of the tax haven. These ones bought the lands from the Paraguayans farmers to an elevated price in regards to the economic level. On this way, the big owners got each time more and more land, to finally surround villages of soybean. The spreading of glyphosate took care to kill all the animals. Then, the illnesses and cancers have also appeared. It is on this way that many communities have disappeared.
