I distrust the idea that you can build a paradise here in history.
The camp, still under construction, is expected to house 40,000 foreigners brought in to build this paradise.
It's about the idea of white people who think they can build a paradise with no regard for who lives there".
"I won't say I built a paradise there," the sheriff said.
Communism then could attract idealists hoping to build a workers' paradise.
Mao Zedong had vowed to build a communist paradise in China through sheer revolutionary zeal, collectivising farmland and creating massive communes at astonishing speed.
According to the Communist Party, the sickle represented the peasants and the hammer the workers, uniting to throw off their chains and build a socialist paradise.
He grew up in New York City, attended Harvard and then dropped out of college to return to China in 1950, shortly after the victory of Mao's forces, hoping to help build a Communist paradise.
A Chinese proposal to build a "tourist paradise" at a vast, isolated site in northern Iceland could also be used as a facility for workers building and serving ports for trade and Arctic exploration.
At the end of the 1970s, Escobar had bought almost eight square miles in order to build his personal paradise, but after his death in 1993 the animal cages and the fake reconstructions of dinosaurs were left to rust.
