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Bush Paraguay Land Grab Incites Unease
Latin America News Agency ^
| 10/18/2006
Posted on 10/19/2006 1:46:58 PM PDT by NapkinUser
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.
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 US 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.
TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: bush; cubanpravda; paraguay
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Strange.
To: NapkinUser
What is in the water down there? Nuts.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:49:05 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: NapkinUser
Yep, the left gets loonier by the day.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:49:46 PM PDT
by
JLS
To: NapkinUser
Yes strange, supposedly "Conservative" website users posting Marxist Latin American propaganda as "news". Guess your daily bout of Bush Derangement Syndrome just kicked in so hard it temporally over whelmed contact with reality.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:49:51 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(EeevilCon, Snowflake, Conservative Fundamentalist Gun Owning Bush Bot Dittohead reporting for duty!)
To: NapkinUser
To: MNJohnnie
Dummies have been all over this for at least a week. Multiple news articles and speculation that the Bush family will try to escape prosecution.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:51:31 PM PDT
by
debg
To: NapkinUser
Say hello to Fidel for me
To: NapkinUser
Prensa Latina is the Cuban news agency.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:52:55 PM PDT
by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("left unchecked, Saddam Hussein...will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen. Hillary Clinton)
To: NapkinUser
"Land grab" <> land purchase.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:52:56 PM PDT
by
sauropod
("Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow." - Ben Franklin)
To: Ben Ficklin
Say hello to Fidel for meAw, you beat me to it!
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:53:49 PM PDT
by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("left unchecked, Saddam Hussein...will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen. Hillary Clinton)
To: MNJohnnie
I don't even know about this at all. It come up on my daily news search, so I thought I'd post this. The source may (or may not) be some left-wing rag, but so is the New York Times, and that's posted here all the time.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:55:17 PM PDT
by
NapkinUser
(http://www.votegraf.org/)
To: NapkinUser
Odd how everything you post had a hate Bush or Hate the GOP spin to it. Why is that?
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:56:12 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(EeevilCon, Snowflake, Conservative Fundamentalist Gun Owning Bush Bot Dittohead reporting for duty!)
To: debg
Its been circulating on Freepmail for several days.
To: NapkinUser
The source may (or may not) be some left-wing rag, but so is the New York Times, and that's posted here all the time.Yes, but it's the left-wing rag of record!
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:58:34 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: MNJohnnie
Please explain to me "everything" I post. If you're going to go into that, know what you are saying.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:59:19 PM PDT
by
NapkinUser
(http://www.votegraf.org/)
To: NapkinUser
I had no idea we had a base down there
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The Estigarribia airbase was constructed in the 1980s for US technicians hired by the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, and is capable of housing large troops units The base has an enormous radar system, huge hangars and an air traffic control tower. The airstrip itself is larger than the one at the international airport in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital. It's oversized for the Paraguayan air force, which only has a handful of small aircrafts Pope John Paul II was there in May 1988 when he visited the town of Santa Teresita, 3 kilometers away Estigarribia has a population of about 2000, which 300 belongs to the 6th Infantry Division, 3rd Corps, paraguayan army garrison On a May 2005 agreement, Paraguay allows United States to use the base
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:59:31 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(FREE KARASTAN !)
To: NapkinUser; MNJohnnie
Oh, Oh. MNJohnnie's after you now. Better lock your doors.
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posted on
10/19/2006 2:01:01 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: llevrok
Probably a contingency landing strip for the Space Shuttle. Looks long enough. We've got them all over the world.
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posted on
10/19/2006 2:02:21 PM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(USAF Air Rescue "That others may live.")
To: llevrok
It's probably a Plan C landing strip for B-52's post nuclear exchange -- as there would be no place to come home to.
That, or a staging area.
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posted on
10/19/2006 2:02:23 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
To: NapkinUser
“The southern US states are already struggling with water shortages," asserted the 1980 Nobel Peace Prizewinner. LOL!
We are what?
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posted on
10/19/2006 2:02:45 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(I just analyze it, I did not create the mess...so go pound sand:-))
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