so i made the six hourjourney from asuncion to the colonies to meet some of the new arrivals. fuhl dich wie zu hause. it means, feel like it means, feel like you it means, feel like you are at home. and for thousands of germans who have arrived here in recent months, this really is home now. amongst them, the hausens two year old ella, her mum teresa, and dad stephan. they moved to paraguay in novemberfrom nuremberg. in november from nuremberg. but in novemberfrom nuremberg. but why? laughs
corona changed many things. 0k. ok. over one 0k. over one million people lost their companies. so the pandemic, the situation with the pandemic played a role in your decision to come to. but the methods are the problem, not the pandemic or corona is not the problem, because what they do is wrong. they destroy the infrastructure. and what about the vaccination rules? what do you think? yeah. vaccination is now a big, big problem, that you don t, um, allow to criticise this. are you vaccinated? no, no. no. i don t do it because there are many questions with this vaccination. many doubts. doubts. doubts. do you think you can live here without vaccination? yes. yes, yes. but there is a campaign. it s not so that all paraguay
i pointed out to hana that the new immigrants who are breaking into paraguay in order to flout the country s covid rules are not being respectful. hana herself is not vaccinated, and tested positive for covid 19 later that day. coughs but this is not. this is not a campaign. this is not a campaign. this is not a campaign. this is what is happening.
injanuary in january this year, paraguay injanuary this year, paraguay made it in january this year, paraguay made it mandatory for all non residents entering the country to be vaccinated. since then, message boards have been filled with ways to get around the rules. michael and the hausens arrived legally and through the airport. but since the rules changed, we re told german citizens have been breaking into the country illegally through its porous borders. juan, not his real name, is a government official. he s risking hisjob to is a government official. he s risking his job to speak to us, because he s angry. he says paraguay had to change the rules because of the immigrants.
and voters now have a day to reflect on the competing claims of the two remaining candidates emmanuel macron and marine le pen. voting is on sunday in an election which is being closely monitored across the european union and beyond. now on bbc news, escape to paraguay. on the banks of the parana river, built among some of paraguay s most fertile land, hohenau, obligado and bella vista, or the united colonies. these german settlements were first established more than 100 years ago by immigrants wanting to farm the land. recently, paraguay has seen a new wave of german immigration. babbles