This is the best summary I could come up with:
Arnaldo Chamorro was replaced as chief of staff for Paraguay’s agriculture ministry on Wednesday shortly after it was revealed that he signed a “proclamation” with representatives of the United States of Kailasa.
During the interview, Chamorro recognized he didn’t know where Kailasa was located and said he signed what he characterized as a “memorandum of understanding” because they offered to help Paraguay with a variety of issues, including irrigation.
The revelation sparked a scandal – and lots of social media mockery – in Paraguay but it’s hardly the first time self-described representatives of the United States of Kailasa duped international leaders.
Earlier this year, they managed to participate in a UN committee meeting in Geneva and also signed agreements with local leaders in the United States and Canada.
Photos posted in Kailasa’s social media accounts also showed representatives of the fictional country signing agreements with local leaders of the María Antonia and Karpai municipalities.
Representatives of the United States of Kailasa participated in two UN committee meetings in Geneva in February, according to media reports.
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As much as I’m tempted to say that this is typical here in South America, the “low clergy” of any government does this sort of stupid shit. Specially under the prospective of international connections. Chamorro is a muppet and there are plenty, plenty muppets like this in any government.
The Guardian’s reporting of those news is kind of crappy though. El Observador got it better, at least in two aspects:
- It doesn’t claim that Chamorro resigned; he was dismissed, kicked out.
- It says what those representatives of Kailasa offered to help Paraguay - with projects. (That even if true would likely sit pretty inside a drawer.)
I’m still waiting for the “Kailasa is a country made in Paraguay” memes.
Now excuse me while I facepalm at this idiotic Hacker News conversation, where three codemonkeys discuss political ontology:
- [user 1] … but which countries aren’t fictional? Is there really such a thing a country? Its just an idea.
- [user 2] Try telling the police, a judge or tax collector that the country you live in is merely a fiction with no basis in your reality. I’m sure they will duly vanish in a puff of logic. Models and abstractions can certainly be very real.
- [user 3] I’m sure I would get a bad response! // Same as if I went to a very religious area, and disputed the existence of their god. // Just cos a bunch of people believe this or that bit of nonsense, perhaps almost everyone, doesn’t make it real.
“Ackshyually”, followed by “I beleeve in abstracshuns”, followed by false equivalence.
I read this as ‘Paraguay officially resigns’ and was really confused, like were they just giving up being a country or
