{"id":70834,"date":"2025-04-08T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/fake-hindu-nation-kailasa-indigenous-land-bolivia-contracts"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:00:36","slug":"magical-realism-how-a-fake-hindu-nation-tried-to-take-over-indigenous-land-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70834","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Magical realism\u2019: how a fake Hindu nation tried to take over Indigenous land in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contracts show fictional country created by fugitive Indian guru would control vast swathes \u2018with full sovereignty\u2019<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year, a representative of the Baure Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon signed a \u201cperpetual\u201d contract leasing 60,000 hectares (148,260 acres) of their vast rainforest for $108,000 (\u00a381,910) a year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/fake-hindu-nation-kailasa-indigenous-land-bolivia-contracts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contracts show fictional country created by fugitive Indian guru would control vast swathes \u2018with full sovereignty\u2019Followers of a fugitive Indian Hindu guru on a mission to establish his own state are popping up across Latin America, offering hundreds &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,1283,62,503,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-bolivia","category-india","category-indigenous-peoples","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70835,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834\/revisions\/70835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}