ForbiddenKnowledgeTV
Alexandra Bruce
November 11, 2013
This is a teaser for the upcoming documentary, ‘Landfill Harmonic’, about the Orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay, in which at-risk children are taught to play classical music from instruments crafted from recycled garbage.
If you are unmoved by this clip, then you are simply unmovable!
In 2013, the US nonprofit group, GO Campaign became the first to directly partner with this project, headed by local hero, Favio Chavez, to help raise funds for the youth orchestra.
Paraguay is a landlocked country in South America. It has long been one of the region’s poorest and most isolated countries. It is so isolated, in fact, that George W. Bush bought 42,000 hectares (over 100,000 acres) of land in Paraguay’s northern “Chaco”
region in 2006, for his own “bug-out” plan, in case the war crimes of which he has been convicted by at least two tribunals catch up with him.
The land deal was consummated in a dinner meeting between Bush’s daughter Jenna and Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte. At the time, Jenna was in Paraguay under the cover of a 10-day UNICEF trip to visit child welfare projects. The Bush land is close to a new US military installation, the Mariscal Estigarribia Air Base and there are rumors that other Bush cronies are buying land down there, as well.
His property is also nearby a huge tract of land purchased by Sun Myung Moon that sits astride one of the world’s largest water aquifers, the Guarani aquifer.
Fascists and Nazis seem to have a penchant for escaping to Paraguay, which was led by Alfredo Stroessner, South America’s longest-lived military dictatorship from 1954-1989.
He was toppled in an internal military coup, and free multi-party elections were organized and held for the first time in 1993.
In 2008, Paraguayan voters chose Fernando Lugo, a former Roman Catholic Bishop, long a proponent of Liberation Theology and not a politician in civil government, defeating 61 years of conservative rule.
The outgoing President, Nicanor Duarte Frutos hailed the moment as the “First time in the history of the nation that a government had transferred power to opposition forces in a constitutional and peaceful fashion.”
Things are looking up for the largely Native American people of this country, whose Guarani tongue is officially recognized, along with Spanish as one of the two official languages of Paraguay and which is spoken by a higher percentage of the people.
Since the turn of the 21st century, Paraguay has experienced rapid economic growth. In 2010, its economy grew by 14.5 percent, the largest economic expansion in Latin America, and the third-fastest in the world (after Qatar and Singapore). By 2011, economic growth had slowed to 6.4%, but remained far higher than the global average. Nevertheless, income inequality and underdevelopment remain widespread.
The beautiful children in this video represent a positive future for this long-oppressed nation. Let’s hope the Moonies and the Bushes don’t mess them up too bad…
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