Bush Paraguay Land Grab Incites Unease......What's up with this?

[babsbunny]

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/george-w.-bush/we-hate-to-bring-up-the-nazis-but-they-fled-to-south-america-too-208549.php



Bush Paraguay Land Grab Incites Unease

Asuncion, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) The land grab project of US President George W. Bush in Chaco, Paraguay, has generated considerable discomfort both politically and environmentally.


The news circulating the continent about plans to buy 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay) is the talk of the town in these countries.



Although official sources have not confirmed the information that is already public, the land is reportedly located in Paso de Patria, near Bolivian gas reserves and the Guarani indigenous water region, within the Triple Border.



Alto Paraguay Gov. Erasmo Rodriguez Acosta revealed he heard that part of the land purchase consists of an ecological reserve (Fundacion Patria), with which Bush is affiliated.



In its interview with Rodriguez Acosta, neike.com.py reported that he does not have documentation of this affiliation and it could not communicate either with the foundation or with the National Rural Development and Land Institute, in charge of these state lands.



Concern increased last week with the arrival of Bush" daughter, Jenna, and a source from the Physical Planning Department saying that most of the Chaco region belongs to private companies.

[kestrel91316]

1. Anybody out there happen to know if we have an

extradition treaty with Paraguay??

My money is on "NO" for some funny reason......

[mod mom]

4. No Immunity as of Oct 2nd:

Paraguay to stop giving US troops immunity
Washington Post, United States - 7 hours ago ASUNCION, Paraguay (Reuters) - Paraguay will stop granting US troops immunity from prosecution next year in an about-face aimed at coordinating policies with

http://globalgeopolitics.net/wordpress/?m=20061002

[elehhhhna]

9. Uh. OH! Maybe that's why Bush clamed rights to outer space last week?

LOL

[babsbunny]

13. Moonie-Land Fears as sect buys up South America!!!

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=387162002


Moonies and Bush as neighbors???????

[Pyrzqxgl]

2. Bush retirement options

Perhaps Bush just wants to be near other ex-Nazi's in South America in his retirement years?

[wtmusic]

6. Like ex-Nazis, he wants to avoid war crimes charges

They'll have so much to talk about!

welcome to DU Pyrzqxql!


:bounce: :toast: :bounce:

[bemildred]

3. I think it's about water.

And maybe Bolivian natural gas and having a safe haven and smuggling. The location has a lot of possibilities.

[elehhhhna]

10. Lawless dictatorship close to Columbian cocaine fields? Yep.

Bush's dream vacation/retirement home.

[Botany]

5. If investigations show that bush;

lied us into a war

stole 2 elections

let cheney and his buddy's loot the federal treasury

that the NSA was spying on Kerry in Ohio in 04 and other
no al Qaeda types

why nothing was done prior to 9-11

that FEMA was packed with his buddy's who stole us blind
and let people die in NOLA

bush is going to need "nazi vacation spa."

655,000 Iraqis are dead thanx to that asshole

[blue cat]

12. great post. n/t

[historian]

7. heres another fact

Imported goods in brazil are very expensive ( i used to live there so i know) so goods are sent to paraguay to a town next to the brazilian border (i forget its name) where trucks by the thousands haul the loot to the major cities to sell. Its practically the only industry paraguay so, logic dictates, being close to the frontier is VERY convenient.

[elehhhhna]

11. One more fact, lost on GW:

US forces can DRIVE there to pick him up for extradition to Den Hague.

[Phrogman]

8. Now can foreign nationals buy up so much of a country's real estate?

Theres a limit in most countries on how much land a foreigner can buy. Specifically to keep rich people from buying up 3rd world countries.

Whats up with Paraguay?

Lets get together a buy the lot next to Georges!

[Peace Patriot]

14. I don't know much about Paraguayan politics but I understood that

Paraguay now has an anti-Yankee leftist government, like the countries bordering these lands, Brazil and Bolivia, and like most of South America (--Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Bolivia, and quite soon Ecuador (leftist way ahead in the polls), and next election cycle, Peru.

I was going to ask, does anyone have a summary of current Paraguayan politics, then I googled it myself and found this excellent article, only a month old--which is deeply disturbing and sounds made to order for Bushite interference. Paraguay is far from stable--does not seem on the way to recovery from draconian US policy, as most other So. American countries seem to be--and is the latest lethal playground for the murderous and militaristic US "war on drugs, pushed into Paraguay from Columbia (--it's not a "war on drugs," it's a war on poor peasants and leftists). Paraguay's dictator is gone, but it has a weak and corrupt centrist government, unlike the more vigorous leftist governments in other countries. When you combine this information with the Z-mag article below (by Benjamin Dangle), which paints a less rosy picture of the leftist movements in some countries (Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil), than I have gotten from other readings--and indicates a more fragile situation, overall, than seemed to be emerging in stories of Latin American regional solidarity--this Bushite land grab in Paraguay becomes yet more alarming. What are these fascists up to? Latin America's concern about it seems well-founded. It may be more than Bush's refuge from prosecution. It may a launching pad for repression and the toppling of good governments.

So, after wrecking our country, now they plan to wreck some others, that are just emerging from decades of brutal repression and are re-establishing democratic rule, and just, fair and representative government policy?

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Bulwark Paraguay
by Ronald J. Morgan
September 22, 2006
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=20&ItemID=11023

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Latin America's Leftist Shift: Hopes and Challenges - by Benjamin Dangl - 3/16/06
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9921

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Here's a description of US military encroachments in Paraguay, Nov. '05:

Eyes on US Troops in Paraguay as Bolivian Election Nears
by Benjamin Dangl
www.dissidentvoice.org
November 21, 2005
First Published in UpsideDownWorld.org

"The recent shift to the left among Latin American governments has been a cause for concern in the Bush administration. The White House has tried in vain to put this shift in check. Presidential elections in Bolivia on December 18th are likely to further challenge U.S. hegemony. Evo Morales, an indigenous, socialist congressman, is expected to win the election. How far will the U.S. go to prevent a leftist victory in Bolivia? Some Bolivians fear the worst.  

"In the past year, U.S. military operations in neighboring Paraguay have complicated the already tumultuous political climate in the region. White House officials claim the operations are based on humanitarian aid efforts. However, political analysts in Bolivia and Paraguay say the activity is aimed at securing the region’s gas and water reserves and intervening in Bolivia if Morales wins. 

"Five hundred U.S. troops arrived in Paraguay on July 1st with planes, weapons and ammunition. Reports from a journalist with the Argentine newspaper, Clarin, prove that an airbase exists in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, which is 200 kilometers from the border with Bolivia and may be utilized by the U.S. military. (1)  

"Earlier this year, Paraguayan lawmakers granted U.S. troops total immunity and have given the Pentagon access to the Estigarribia base, which was built by U.S. technicians in the 1980s and is larger than Paraguay's international airport in Asunción, the country’s capital. (2)  

"In addition to the military activity, the FBI also has plans for Paraguay. On October 26, FBI Director Robert Mueller arrived in the country to 'check on preparations for the installation of a permanent FBI office in Asuncion…to cooperate with security organizations to fight international crime, drug traffic and kidnapping.'" (MORE)

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Dangl1121.htm

[mod mom]

16. Has Chavez commented on this? Will search and report back.

[rosesaylavee]

15. He can run

but he can't hide. We will find him no matter where he goes.