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Bush Buys Land in Northern Paraguay

Buenos Aires, Oct 13 (Prensa Latina) An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region.


Luis D Elia, undersecretary for the Social Habitat in the Argentine Federal Planning Ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital INFOBAE.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia.



The news circulated Thursday in non-official sources in Asuncion, Paraguay.



D Elia considered this Bush step counterproductive for the regional power expressed by Presidents Nestor Kirchner, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.



He said that "it is a bad signal that the Bush family is doing business with natural resources linked to the future of MERCOSUR."



The official pointed out that this situation could cause a hypothetical conflict of all the armies in the region, and called attention to the Bush family habit of associating business and politics.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

sooner the better

...so shrub* is going to be with his people. There must be some sort of occult evil energy field in that part of the world. Nazi war criminals and their families and their money has been protected down there for over 60 years

(At the end of the story, when John, Paul George and Ringo had helped Old Fred defeat the Blue Meanies and restore the glory of Pepperland)

Chief Blue Meanie: Max...it's not a Blue world world anymore, Max...Where shall we go?

Blue Max: ...Argentina?...

(Chief Blue Meanie slaps Max on the head...)

before she urges him to run for president

The BFEE will fit in nicely.

...to rise above house servant

Because that's a big enough plot of land to hide from his/their enemies?

prevents an answer.

i thought it was about water rights?

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon1.html

to ruin? http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/Argentina/Barrick_...

(ranching, farming) it's a good biz to be in when economies crash. People gotta eat, even if they can't afford the latest flat TV or iPod or what have you....

Rent the movie and find out.
http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=328185

Found this January 2006 article interesting at the time and even more so now:

www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/2479/1/140/

"The Bush administration has sent troops into Paraguay. They are
there ostensibly for humanitarian and counterterrorism purposes. The action coincides with growing left unity in South America, military buildup in the region and burgeoning independent trade
relationships."

snip

" In December 2004, the Bush administration canceled $330 million in economic and military aid to 10 South American countries. They were being penalized for turning down a US request for granting its
soldiers immunity from prosecution for crimes they commit within the countries' borders.

On May 5, however, the government of Paraguay took the bait. It
signed an agreement authorizing an 18-month stay, automatically
extended, for US soldiers and civilian employees. The previous limit had been set at six months. On May 26, in a secret session,
Paraguay's Congress passed legislation protecting US soldiers from
prosecution for criminal activity, both within Paraguay and by the
International Criminal Court."

So, what do you make of this turn of events?

invasions of uppity Latin American countries? (Theory #1)

Paraguay has a history of hiding Nazi war criminals. Maybe some Bush family friends have invited him to come down there to escape if he's extradited to The Hague. (Theory #2)

Dark Armies, Secret Bases, and Rummy

by Conn Hallinan

November 24, 2005

<snip>

But there is nothing amusing about an enormous U.S. base less than 120 miles from the Bolivian border, or the explosive growth of U.S.-financed mercenary armies that are doing everything from training the military in Paraguay and Ecuador to calling in air attacks against guerillas in Colombia. Indeed, it is feeling a little like the run up to the `60s and `70s, when Washington-sponsored military dictatorships dominated most of the continent, and dark armies ruled the night.


U.S. Special Forces began arriving this past summer at Paraguay's Mariscal Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built in 1982 during the reign of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Argentinean journalists who got a peek at the place say the airfield can handle B-52 bombers and Galaxy C-5 cargo planes. It also has a huge radar system, vast hangers, and can house up to 16,000 troops. The air base is larger than the international airport at the capital city, Asuncion .

<snip>

"Privatizing" war is not only the logical extension of the Bush administration's mania for contracting everything out to the private sector; it also shields the White House's activities from the U.S. Congress. "My complaint about the use of private contractors," says U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsy (D-IL), "is their ability to fly under the radar to avoid accountability."

<snip

Would the United States try to destabilize Bolivia's economy while training people how to use military force to insure Enron, Shell, British Gas, Total, Repsol, and the United States continues to get Bolivian gas for pennies on the dollar? Quite likely.


And would the White House like to use such a coup as a way to send a message to other countries? You bet. President Bush may be clueless on geography, but he is not bad at overthrowing governments and killing people.


Will it be as easy as it was in the old days when the CIA could bribe truckers to paralyze Chile and set the stage for a coup? Nothing is easy in Latin America anymore.

<more>

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&...

from prosecution for criminal activity, both within Paraguay and by the
International Criminal Court.

Moreover, what is Jenna doing having dinner there with Paraguay's head of state? Talking about UNICEF? Doubtful.

This is absolutely astonishing. I would infer that some sort of secret deal was cut to pump US dollars into this poor country's economy, through military base construction, in exchange for legislation protecting Shrub from prosecution.

A sitting President is apparently making plans to flee the United States with his family. This is quite remarkable.

The Bushes must be worried.

http://dominionpaper.ca/accounts/2005/09/23/us_militar....
BHN