Word: dignidad
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...impoverished peasants of Chile's rural Seventh Region, the arrival in 1961 of los alemanes (the Germans) seemed at first like a godsend. The 60 or so blond, blue-eyed settlers of Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) quickly set to work constructing what they called an "educational and benefactory society" on the site of an old ranch near Parral, 250 miles south of Santiago. Before long the newcomers had built a model community that offered many of the area's 20,000 residents access to employment, trade, free hospital services, an elementary school and, eventually, even a European-style restaurant...
...home to more than 3.6 million ethnic Germans; in many areas, the German language is still more prevalent than Portuguese, and towns bear names such as Blumenau, Frederico Westphalen and Novo Hamburgo. Near the Chilean city of Parral, 300 Germans have set up a closed community called Colonia Dignidad. Protected by a high fence, the colony observes its own laws and has been reported to shelter at least two former ranking Nazis...
...Tugwell insists that he is as vigorous a planner and reformer as ever. But he admits that the island has problems not easily solved by fiat, or entirely blamable on U.S. economic exploitation-the depleted farm land, the density of population, the "hard, slick" politicos, the precious Spanish-tropical dignidad, and what Tugwell learned to call the "colonial whine...