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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 Guaranà 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.
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Wonkette talked about this a few months back. It would not surprise me if this really was his plan. Certainly he’d be an idiot to think that there won’t be a backlash after he’s out, if from no where else then from Europe and the Hague. If Americans manage to grow some brass ones, it will be high treason, crimes against the people and their constitutional rights and simple criminal charges he’ll try to flee from. Once a coward, always a coward.
I am amused to think that he’d somehow believe he’d be safe there, even with what was reported to be several brigades (or even divisions) of “loyalist” marines and army special forces who will be mustered out of the US Military to form his own personal militia. It’s not like Paraguay is some mountainous redoubt like Tora-Bora or that conventional smart weapons and possibly unconventional weapons wouldn’t be used to root him out. Well, then again, self-delusion is his one truly pervasive trait.
He can move there now