The Germans of Paraguay and Anti White Terrorist Organisations Trying to Get Rid of Them
Firstly, The Germans of Paraguay
The first German to ever lay foot in Paraguay was most likely the Bavarian conquistador and adventurer Ulrich Schmidl along with 8 other German mercenaries under the employ of the Spanish Empire in 1535. Together with conquistadors Juan de Salazar y Espinosa and Gonzalo de Mendoza they founded a fort along the Paraguay river that they named "Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Asunción", which became the Capitol of Paraguay.
Paraguay is today an overwhelmingly Mestizo population, the only country in South America where the majority of the population speaks an indigenous language (Guarani), and the only country on earth to have historically forbade single-race marriages. It's first ruler after independence in 1814 was El Supremo José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, a radical adherent to the enlightenment who intended to build a state based on the principles of Rousseau's Social Contract, although he still maintained slavery.
He enforced isolation on the country through protectionist policies, forbade foreigners who entered from leaving, declared the Paraguayan Catholic Church independent from Rome and placed himself as its Pope, and intended to destroy the caste system and prevent it from ever returning by forbidding the Spanish-descended Criollio population from marrying anyone but Indios or Mestizos for a generation. This largely succeeded and Paraguay became entirely mixed by his death in 1840.
The introduction of German settlers to Paraguay only occurred 30 years later after the Great-Nephew of El Supremo Francia, Francisco Solano López was declared President on his fathers death. Lopez's disastrous invasion of both Argentina and Brazil in the War of the Triple Alliance resulted in not only his death, the loss of 30% of Paraguay's land but also the death of 80% of the male population by the wars end in 1870. Lopez's successors after this point desperately tried to entice European immigration to repopulate the country.
Austro-Hungarian diplomat to Paraguay Christian Heisecke was a champion of this policy, and worked with Swiss-German merchant Santiago Schaerer to create German speaking settlements in Paraguay. The first successful project was the colony San Bernardino settled in 1881, today Paraguay's richest resort town. Santiago Schaerer went on to establish Fulgencio Yegros in 1888 before retiring with his Paraguayan wife to San Bernardino where his son and future president of Paraguay Eduardo Schaerer was born. Christian Heisecke continued founding colonies with Hohenau established by 1900, aswell as encouraging immigration from Germany to the capitol Asuncion, establishing the neighbourhoods of Saxony and Ciudad Nueva.
By 1912 Paraguay's first German president Eduardo Schaerer was elected, ruling from 1912-1916, under his rule German migration increased and his rule was considered remarkably stable in Paraguayan history, however he was forced to flee the country during the first Paraguayan civil war of 1924. The German settlements of Cambyretá, Bella Vista and Obligado were founded under his rule.
The next wave of German speaking migration to Paraguay was to occur after Paraguay's victory over Bolivia in the 1923 Chaco war, granting them a vast amount of undeveloped land populated by still uncontacted Indians. In 1926 2,000 Mennonites landed in Paraguay from Canada to colonise the Chaco establishing the Menno Colony before being joined by Russian Mennonites fleeing the Soviet Union.
The Mennonites success caused them to grow to be the majority in the Chaco region of Paraguay which made up over 50% of the countries land but less than 2% of its population. With their success there was also an explosion in the Indian population who today make up the majority of the Chacos population, living as labourers for Mennonite or German owned farms and ranches. The Germans outside the Chaco were also primarily ranchers and farmers living in a similar social dynamics. Whites in general were 8% of the population but owned 90% of farmland, this social dynamic inevitably made them the target of leftist agitation.
By 1939 Paraguay was suffering from severe political instability, the Communist party organised landless Indians and mestizos to march on white owned farms and ranches. Paraguay was ruled by ineffective successive right wing military junta's until the election of popular war hero José Félix Estigarribia. However he died in an accidental plane crash only a few months into his rule, Officer Higinio Morínigo acting as interim government president declared himself president and suspended elections. He ran a pro-Axis government and allowed the establishment of the only official South American branch of the Nazi party in South America in Paraguay. The country suffered low level political insurgency for the following 7 years until a US backed coup to remove Higinio Morínigo ignited a civil war in 1947.
The Conservative faction led by President Higinio Morínigo and General Alfredo Stroessner, son of Bavarian immigrants, consisted of the nationalist Colorado party and fought against the Communist-Liberal parties insurgents. Still after the Conservative victory Higinio Morínigo was removed from power by the Colorado Party and successive interim governments followed, this ended when Alfredo Stroessner led a coup in 1954 declaring himself President and head of the Colorado Party.
Alfredo Stroessner was the second German descended President of Paraguay and ran a one-party state from 1954-1989. Paraguay lived under an unprecedented state of stability and Stroessner dedicated his time to public work projects such as the Itaipu Dam, the Yacyretá Dam and founding the city of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay's 2nd most populous city today. To this day energy from dams constructed by Stroessner make up 20% of Paraguay's export revenue. A large number of Nazi war criminals found refuge in Paraguay under Stroessner's protections. He was also apparently a serial adulterer and child molester, fathering 30 illegitimate children, impregnating girls as young as 8.
Stroessner allowed for the migration of large numbers of Brazilians, primarily German and Italian descended Brazilians that were granted land in the north east to use for cattle ranching. These Portuguese speaking whites are known as Brasiguayos and make up 6% of Paraguays population, many parts of North East Paraguay are majority Portuguese speaking for this reason.
Stroessner was removed by a Colorado Party backed coup in 1989 and replaced by Andrés Rodríguez who limited presidents to a single 5 year term. From this point on Paraguay remained a stable country, ruled exclusively by the Colorado party although allowing others to exist.
1. Eduardo Schaerer
2. Alfredo Stroessner
3. Oktoberfest in Obligado
4. A Highschool in San Bernardino
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