chozo wrote:where is the MERCOSUR connection?

That was my question, too. I was surprised to see that Venezuela had joined this past summer. It looked like a pro-American organization until then, but according to this from wikipedia:

The organization could also potentially pre-empt the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), however, over half of the current Mercosur member countries rejected the FTAA proposal at the IV Cumbre de las Américas (IV Summit of the Americas) in Argentina in 2005.

it looks like the goal is to counterbalance US economic dominance in the region, not join forces with it. Mexico is joining, and Calderon is owned by Wall Street and the RNC, so I need to read more about what MERCOSUR is supposed to be all about.

chozo wrote: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.

Very interesting. My first thought also was that the property was possibly a safe haven for Bush from war crime prosecution

chozo wrote:where is the MERCOSUR connection?

good question. another thing thats been puzzling me though is who exactly told bush about the existence of paraguay? wheres the leak?

More coverage of the Bush land purchase. The Moonies are involved. What's strange is that the new General Secretary of the UN is also alleged to have ties to the Unification Church.

rigorous intuition wrote:

About a year and a half ago, I referred to Sun Myung Moon's purchase of 600,000 hectares of Paraguay's Chaco for the stated intention of erecting an "ecological paradise." Moon's land sits atop the Guarani Aquifer, the Earth's largest resource of fresh drinking water, and also happens to be an "enormously strategic point in both the narcotics and arms trades," according to Paraguay's drug czar from 1976-89. "The available intelligence clearly shows that the Moon sect is involved in both these enterprises."

Now, apparently, the Reverend is again keeping familiar company:

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 Oct 11 story from Paraguay, in Spanish, can be found here. There's a second story 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.

Good place to manage the New World Order from, that Paraguay.

clocker bob wrote: Do you have any familiarity with Prensa Latina, Sebastian? Do you think it is a reliable source?

I haven't heard of Prensa Latina before, but I can tell you that D' Elia is kinda of a honest man (he used to be a "Piquetero", low class leader, and still is, somehow) Before he had denounced this yankee magnete called Thompson who had bought several lands of the Northeast Argentinian.

wow.

that's almost the size of chicago.

Bush City, Paraguay, will be the Second City of the "Second America." I bet it will be on top of a lot of oil wells.

Sebastian J. wrote:I can tell you that D' Elia is kinda of a honest man (he used to be a "Piquetero", low class leader, and still is, somehow) Before he had denounced this yankee magnete called Thompson who had bought several lands of the Northeast Argentinian.

Thanks for the info. Just for the hell of it, I'm going to e-mail the articles about the land in Paraguay to some left wing mags like Nation or Z, see if anyone there will follow up on this, try and get a comment from inside the administration.

Wayne Madsen Report has more details on the Bush property in Paraguay:

October 23, 2006 -- George W. Bush's Paraguay land deal.

WMR's Paraguayan sources have confirmed that George W. Bush recently bought 42,000 hectares (over 100,000 acres) of land in Paraguay's northern "Chaco" region. The land sits atop huge natural gas reserves, according to sources in Asuncion. Moreover, the land deal was consummated in a dinner meeting between Bush's daughter Jenna and Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte. Although Jenna, who was in Paraguay under the cover of a 10-day UNICEF trip to visit child welfare projects, put the Bush family seal of approval on the land deal, the actual legal papers were worked out by Bush family lawyers and business representatives. Jenna Bush is supposedly working for UNICEF in Panama City. A troubling aspect of the land deal is the role played by James Cason, the US ambassador to Paraguay, in a private Bush family business venture. Cason is a career Foreign Service officer whose previous assignment was the head of the US Interests Section in Havana, where he managed to stir up tensions between the mission and Cuban authorities with his anti-Castro advertisements placed in the windows of the U.S. offices. Cason also has a long history of cooperating with the Defense Intelligence Agency in such locations as Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Cason also served as the Guatemala Desk Officer at the Department of State.

The Bush land is close to a new U.S. military installation, the Mariscal Estigarribia Air Base. It 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.

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I have been a long time reader of this forum, but this is my first post. Kind of strange, feels like I know some of you. By the way, I am indeed a woman, I possess very tough skin and all sarky comments will be thrown right back at you! (In a nice way, of course! )

Anyways, question for Clocker Bob about this thread..

Are you familiar with Dave Emory? If so, do you know if he has done any research on this subject? I would be interested to know what he has to say about it.

Nina wrote:Anyways, question for Clocker Bob about this thread..

Are you familiar with Dave Emory? If so, do you know if he has done any research on this subject? I would be interested to know what he has to say about it.

Good question. The Bush-Nazi-Fascist nexus, plus the South American locale- sounds like the land purchase would be the kind of topic covered by someone like Dave Emory. I check his blog ( but haven't recently ); I'll see if he has written about it.

clocker bob wrote:More coverage of the Bush land purchase. The Moonies are involved. What's strange is that the new General Secretary of the UN is also alleged to have ties to the Unification Church.

rigorous intuition wrote:
About a year and a half ago, I referred to Sun Myung Moon's purchase of 600,000 hectares of Paraguay's Chaco for the stated intention of erecting an "ecological paradise." Moon's land sits atop the Guarani Aquifer, the Earth's largest resource of fresh drinking water, and also happens to be an "enormously strategic point in both the narcotics and arms trades," according to Paraguay's drug czar from 1976-89. "The available intelligence clearly shows that the Moon sect is involved in both these enterprises."

I remember reading an article about the Moonies controlling a large chunk of the Sushi market. Sushi, Arms and Drugs? Weird.