Why a South Korean church bought a village in Paraguay
How a controversial religious group from South Korea gained ownership of a remote village in Paraguay.
Puerto Casado is a remote village in Paraguay, in South America. It’s not dissimilar to many other rural towns in the area: red-brick houses, small grocery stores and unpaved roads. But what makes Puerto Casado an exception is that it’s at the centre of a land dispute between the Paraguayan state, local residents and the Unification Church, a controversial religious group from South Korea. Ronald Avila-Claudio from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mundo has recently been there. Plus, what the re-opening of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea means to people living there, with Girmay Gebru from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News Africa; and a diver swimming with a great white shark and other viral stories, with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Indonesian's Famega Syavira Putri.
This episode of The Documentary comes to you from The Fifth Floor, the show at the heart of global storytelling, with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ journalists from all around the world. This is an EcoAudio certified production.
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)
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