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Substack Article: https://open.substack.com/pub/theofficialurban/p/jesuit-reductions?r=3kr5wz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Radio Interview by Kody Morey from https://www.truthtriumphantministries.org/

In Paraguay, the Jesuits created a unique fusion of religious and military authority. To protect the Guarani from slave traders, Jesuits organized and armed native militias. These settlements functioned as a strategic buffer zone where Jesuit "priest-colonels" managed both spiritual survival and the physical defense of the frontier.

"Reductions in Paraguay in the 17th and 18th centuries, which were a series of communes in which Jesuit priest exercised authority over the natives there. In that environment, the Jesuit Order maintained control over a group of South American Guarani Indians, who they educated and trained to work on their behalf, generating goods that were later sold in the markets of Europe." (Read More)