Thread: Escape to Paraguay? Rumors of Bush Land Deal

Escape to Paraguay? Rumors of Bush Land Deal
By truthista
10/16/2006 07:23:42 AM EST

At least two sources, including Upsidedownworld and Prensa Latina, report rumors of a Bush family purchase of land in northern Paraguay.
Upsidedownworld writes, on October 11:


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.

Prensa Latina, writing on October 13, gives a similar story but names George W. Bush rather than his father:

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.

A visit by Jenna Bush on behalf of Unicef may have triggered speculation, as Upsidedownworld also suggests. But, could there be truth to the rumors? As calls increase for his impeachment, the President could well be thinking that South America would make a fine place to retire.

Another rumored land deal, this one involving the U.S. military, attracted the attention of Project Censored, which listed "U.S. Military in Paraguay" as one of its top 25 censored stories of 2007.

Five hundred U.S. troops arrived in Paraguay with planes, weapons, and ammunition in July 2005, shortly after the Paraguayan Senate granted U.S. troops immunity from national and International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction. Neighboring countries and human rights organizations are concerned that the massive air base at Mariscal Estigarribia,

Paraguay is potential real estate for the U.S. military. [Project Censored]
"U.S. and Paraguayan officials vehemently deny ambitions to establish a U.S. military base at Mariscal Estigarribia," writes Project Censored. But, there's good reason to believe this rumor, based on a top-secret memo described by Newsweek on August 9, 2006. The memo, cited in the 9/11 Commission report, "lamented the lack of good targets in Afghanistan and proposed instead U.S. military attacks in South America or Southeast Asia as 'a surprise to the terrorists.'"

The memo's content, NEWSWEEK has learned, was in part the product of ideas from a two-man secret Pentagon intelligence unit appointed by Feith after 9/11: veteran defense analyst Michael Maloof and Mideast expert David Wurmser, now a top foreign-policy aide to Dick Cheney.
They argued that an attack on terrorists in South America—for example, a remote region on the border of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where intelligence reports said Iranian-backed Hizbullah had a presence—would have ripple effects on other terrorist operations.

The arrival of U.S. troops at a massive air base in Paraguay - interestingly, not far from rich Bolivian gas fields - suggests that administration officials may have dusted off an old plan, having learned no lessons from their disastrous intervention in Iraq.

This is just another way for Boosh to try and take control of more foreign oil. Will the boosh greed ever be satisfied? I'm going to say no.
What will GW do after the earth has been conquered, and his thirst still isn't quenched? I guess he'll have to go to the moon and have it as well.
That's cool. Take all the illegals up there w/ you to build your new community by The Sea of Tranquility can be the new sanctuary city for you and all your illegals GWB!
Then they can all brag about how they 'built' the community and they can have their stupid aztlan up there...

After being deposed, all extreme dictators take the money and flee the country.

Dixie

Please read the article closely, this is nothing more than a conspiracy theory until some sort of evidence is provided to substantiate the claims. Right now, there is absolutely nothing in the way of proof - the article even says as much.

Even though I voted on President Bush, I have acquired a very strong dislike for the man due to his position on illegal immigration. With that said, I still refuse to buy into every conspiracy theory that comes down the pike. With no evidence or documentation, this article is a waste of space.

Typical coward, destroy the country and leave so he won't have to face the music. This guy is evil.