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Bush's
Paraguay Land Grab
Hideout or Water Raid?
By
CP News Wire
Asuncion,
Paraguay
October 20 /
22, 2006
The
land grab project of U.S. 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's daughter,
Jenna, and a source from the Physical Planning Department
saying that most of the Chaco region belongs to private
companies.
Luis D'Elia,
Argentina´s undersecretary for Land for Social Habitat, says
the matter raises regional concern because it threatens
local natural resources.
He termed it
"surprising" that the Bush family is trying to settle a few
short miles from the US Mariscal Estigarribia Military Base.
Argentinean
Adolfo Perez Esquivel warned that the real war will be
fought not for oil, but for water, and recalled that
Acuifero Guaraní is one of the largest underground water
reserves in South America, running beneath Argentina,
Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (larger than Texas and
California together).
"The
southern U.S. states are already struggling with water
shortages," asserted the 1980 Nobel Peace Prizewinner.
Orlando
Castillo, Paraguay Peace and Justice Service member,
recalled the US military buildup in Chaco under a bilateral
agreement.
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Paraguay in a
spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway
Meeting the new
couple next door can be an anxious
business for even the most relaxed home
owner. Will they be international drug
traffickers? Have they got noisy kids
with a penchant for electronic music? As
worries go, however, having the US
president move in next door must come
fairly low on the list.
Unless of course you
are a resident of northern Paraguay and
believe reports in the South American
press that he has bought up a 100,000
acre (40,500 hectare) ranch in your neck
of the woods.
The rumors, as yet
unconfirmed but which began with the
state-run Cuban news agency Prensa
Latina, have triggered an outpouring of
conspiracy theories, with speculation
rife about what President Bush's
supposed interest in the "chaco", a
semi-arid lowland in the Paraguay's
north, might be.
Some have speculated
that he might be trying to wrestle
control of the Guarani Aquifer, one of
the largest underground water reserves,
from the Paraguayans.
Rumours of Mr Bush's
supposed forays into South American real
estate surfaced during a recent 10-day
visit to the country by his daughter
Jenna Bush. Little is known about her
trip to Paraguay, although officially
she travelled with the UN children's
agency Unicef to visit social projects.
Photographers from the Paraguayan
newspaper ABC Color tracked her down to
one restaurant in Paraguay's capital
Asunción, where she was seen flanked by
10 security guards, and was also
reported to have met Paraguay's
president, Nicanor Duarte, and the US
ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason.
Reports in sections of the Paraguayan
media suggested she was sent on a family
"mission" to tie up the land purchase in
the "chaco".
Erasmo Rodríguez
Acosta, the governor of the Alto
Paraguay region where Mr Bush's new
acquisition supposedly lies, told one
Paraguayan news agency there were
indications that Mr Bush had bought land
in Paso de Patria, near the border with
Brazil and Bolivia. He was, however,
unable to prove this, he added.
Last week the
Paraguayan news group Neike suggested
that Ms Bush was in Paraguay to "visit
the land acquired by her father -
relatively close to the Brazilian
Pantanal [wetlands] and the Bolivian gas
reserves".
The US presence in
Paraguay has been under scrutiny since
May 2005 when the country's Congress
agreed to allow 400 American marines to
operate there for 18 months in exchange
for financial aid.
At the time many
viewed the arrival of troops as a sign
that Washington was trying to monitor US
business interests in neighboring
Bolivia, after the election of Evo
Morales, a leftwing leader who promised
to nationalize his country's natural gas
industry.
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Bush and Moonies Make HUGE Land Grabs in Paraguay
NAU Info
July 22, 2008
The Governor of Alto
Paraguay, Erasmo Rodríguez Acosta has admitted to hearing
that George Bush Sr. owns land in the Chaco region of
Paraguay, in Paso de Patria. Acosta says that rumor has it
that Bush owns near to 70 thousand hectares (173,000 acres)
as part of an ecological reserve and/or ranch. However, the
governor said he had no documents to prove the rumor. Acosta
said that some stories credited the land to the Fundación
Patria, which Bush would be a member of. The spokespeople of
the organization were not available to comment. Supposedly,
Timothy Towell , the U.S. Ambassador in Asunción (the
capital of Paraguay) is the present administrator of the
land. First accounts signaled that Bush had acquired 40,000
hectares (99,000 acres) in the Chaco zone of Fuerte Olimpo,
near the Bolivian Border. A spark of the interest in this
property may have been Jenna Bush's private visit to
Paraguay with Unicef, which started Saturday, October 7,
2006. Supposedly Jenna will travel to the ranch to "observe"
several indigenous villages are located on the property.
The original story from Paraguay, in Spanish, from Prensa
Latina that identifies the purchaser as George W rather than
George HW Bush, but the Chaco purchase strikes me as more
likely an initiative of the father than of the son. Bush Sr,
let's
remember, tootled around
Latin America in 1996 as
Moon's lapdog and praised
him in Buenos Aires as "the
man with the vision." (Moon's foresight might
have included blackmail, specifically the office of the then
Vice President with the
Craig Spence call boy
scandal. Influence, by any means necessary.) Still, keeping
Moon's company is a Bush family enterprise, as
Neil accompanied the Reverend
last year on his 100-day "global peace campaign."
Paraguay, of course, has been a recent
source of
alarm to the region for its
allowance of its
tri-border territory to
become a US military beachhead. Now, with the reports of the
Bush purchase of an "ecological reserve" alongside Moon's,
we have good reason to suspect that US national security has
again been seconded to the Bush family business.
The land which is located somewhere near Mariscal
Estigarribia is near natural gas reserves, but of more
importance, It's near the one of the largest aquafers in N.
America.
Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel warned that the real war
will be fought not for oil, but for water, and recalled that
Acuifero Guaraní is one of the largest underground water
reserves in South America, running beneath Argentina,
Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (larger than Texas and
California together).
He termed it “surprising” that the Bush family is trying to
settle a few short miles from the US Mariscal Estigarribia
Military Base.
Another report notes the
land purchase is also nearby a huge tract of land purchased
by Sun Myung Moon that sits astride Latin America's largest
water aquifer, the Guarani aquifer.
According to this report, Bush and the Carlyle Group are
also the owners of major tracts of land along the proposed
US
super-highway linking Mexico and
Canada, land that will be worth hundreds of
millions more when the highway is completed.
Do I need to remind everyone that the Nazi's escaped to
South America as well?
No extradition treaties, no rule, no conscience..
We Hate To Bring Up the Nazis again, But They
Fled To South America, Too
Our paranoid friends over at Bring It On have put together a
story that hasn’t exactly made Washington Whispers. It’s
real short and real simple:
The Cuban news service reports that George W. Bush has
purchased 98,840 acres in Paraguay, near the
Bolivian/Brazilian border.
Jenna Bush paid a secret diplomatic visit to Paraguayan
President Nicanor Duarte and U.S. Ambassador James Cason.
There were no press conferences, no public sightings and no
official confirmation of her 10-day trip which apparently
ended this week.
The Paraguayan Senate voted last summer to “grant U.S.
troops immunity from national and International Criminal
Court (ICC) jurisdiction.”
Immediately afterwards, 500 heavily armed U.S. troops
arrived with various planes, choppers and land vehicles at
Mariscal Estigarribia air base, which happens to be at the
northern tip of Paraguay near the Bolivian/Brazilian border.
More have reportedly arrived since then.
What the hell, after the jump. Plus a BREAKING UPDATE
involving, of course, The Moonies!
Now, Prensa Latina is a Cuban-government operation that is
not exactly friendly toward Washington, what with Washington
trying to kill Castro for 50 years and all.
But Prensa Latina didn’t invent the story. It’s all over the
South American press — and not just Venezuela and Bolivia.
As far as we can understand, all the paperwork and deeds and
such are secret. But somehow the news leaked that a new
“land trust” created for Bush had purchased nearly 100,000
acres near the town of Chaco.
And Jenna’s down there having secret meetings with the
president and America’s ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason.
Bush posted Cason in Havana in 2002, but last year moved him
to Paraguay.
Cason apparently gets around. A former “political adviser”
to the U.S. Atlantic Command and ATO’s Supreme Allied
Commander Atlantic, Cason has been stationed in El Salvador,
Honduras, Guatemala, Panama … basically everywhere the U.S.
has run secret and not-so-secret wars over the past 30
years.
Here’s a fun question for Tony Snow: Why might the president
and his family need a 98.840-acre ranch in Paraguay
protected by a semi-secret U.S. military base manned by
American troops who have been exempted from war-crimes
prosecution by the Paraguyan government?
Here’s a little background on the base itself, which
Rumsfeld secretly visited in late 2005:
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.
Some 500 special forces arrived July 1 for a three-month
counterterrorism training exercise, code named Operation
Commando Force 6.
Paraguayan denials that Mariscal Estigarribia is now a U.S.
base have met with considerable skepticism by Brazil and
Argentina. There is a disturbing resemblance between U.S.
denials about Mariscal Estigarribia, and similar disclaimers
made by the Pentagon about Eloy Alfaro airbase in Manta ,
Ecuador. The United States claimed the Manta base was a
“dirt strip” used for weather surveillance. When local
journalists revealed its size, however, the United States
admitted the base harbored thousands of mercenaries and
hundreds of U.S. troops, and Washington had signed a 10-year
basing agreement with Ecuador.
We’ve been directed to yet another parapolitical theory here
at Rigorous Intuition, where it is reported that Rev. Moon
bought 600,000 hectares — that’s 1,482,600 acres — in the
same place: Chaco, Paraguay.
Another twist: The first story, from Paraguay, apparently
refers to the senior George Bush as the owner of the 98.840
acres in Moon’s neighborhood.
Bush 41 was the first bigshot politician to go prancing
around with Rev. Moon in public. Especially in South
America:
“In the early stages of the Reagan Revolution that embraced
the Washington Times and Moon’s anti-Communist movement, it
was embarrassing to be caught at a Moon event,” wrote The
Gadflyer last year. “Until George H.W. Bush appeared with
Moon in 1996, thanking him for a newspaper that ‘brings
sanity to Washington.’” That was while on an extended trip
to South America in Moon’s company. A Reuters’ story of Nov
25 of that year describes the former president as “full of
praise” for Moon at a banquet in Buenos Aires, toasting him
as “the man with the vision.” (And Moon helped Bush out with
his own vision thing, paying him $100,000 for the pleasure
of his company.) Bush and Moon then traveled together to
Uruguay, “to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital,
Montevideo, to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread
the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America.”
Isn’t that special?
Oh, and both the Moonie and Bush land is located at what
Paraguay’s drug czar called an “enormously strategic point
in both the narcotics and arms trades.” And it sits atop the
one of the world’s largest fresh-water aquifers.
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