Opades of a fugitive Hindu Indian guruwith a mission to establish its own state, they appear throughout Latin America, offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy land in Ecuador, Paraguay and now to Bolivia.
THE guru nithyananda Last year, the Guardian writes, Put the native Baure in the Amazon of Bolivia to sign a 148,260 -acre “eternal” lease contract of their infinite rainforest $ 108,000 per year.
Similar contract, signed and the native Cayubabaleased 31,000 hectares against $ 55,800 per year – with Nithyananda to It presents them the fantastic country “United States of Cailasa” as a sovereign state!
The fantastic nation was created by Nithyananda – a self -proclaimed “Godfather” and “Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism” – in 2019, after leaving India while facing charges of kidnapping children for his ashram and one for rape.
After Failed attempts to buy land in Ecuador and Paraguay – And even the signing of an agreement with the city of Newark, USA, which was later canceled when officials realized that Kayilasa did not exist – The “Mimu” country turned to Bolivia.
Between September and November 2024, its representatives signed contracts with at least four native groups for the lease of 1,000 years “with automatic and perpetual renewal ‘of their territories.
All seemed to go according to the plan, until the Bolivia’s El Deber newspaper was released in March 2025, the fraud on the “cross”.
“When I first read the contracts, I thought, ‘I have to imagine that.’ They were so absurd that they looked like magic realism, “she said Silvana Vicenti, the journalist that revealed the story.
According to contracts, Kailasa will control huge land, “with full sovereignty and autonomy” in every area of indigenous people, including rights to airspace and all natural resources above or below the ground.
The native groups they will be obliged to ‘defend the Kayilas in every legal process’ and support her recognition ‘As a sovereign and independent state, to protect it from attacks and to support its entry into international organizations such as the UN. “
For Vicenti, this seemed like “a monarchy with indigenous nationals”.
OR Jhovana Morales, Lawyer by Fundación Tierra, An NGOs dealing with indigenous land issues said that The contracts were abusive and violated several Bolivia laws. An example was the clause of perpetual lease, as the Civil Code set a maximum of 10 years.
«Contracts are a complete fraud“, Morales said. “But the strangest thing is that, to date, no one knows exactly what happened. First, how did they come in? … How did they get to these places and began to approach direct areas of the indigenous territory of the Amazon? “
Following the revelation of the case, the Bolivian government issued a statement denied diplomatic ties with the fake country.
However, there is a photo of Bolivian President Luis Arce, who She smiles as she receives a book entitled United States of Kalasa from a woman wearing a saffron.