Paraguay in a spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1928928,00.html

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 rumours, 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".

Especially if Jenna and Barb decide to take up residence there.

:grr: :grr:

I would hope most of those are from Paraguay.....

I frankly do not see our President living out side the USA. I am not sure why I feel that way. I also can not see the girls doing a deal. I think we need to know more on this one. Buying up water I can see. It is the coming war stuff I think. Oil will be child's play.

or spending a lifetime behind bars in the Hague. Bush is running out of options.

Perhaps Bush knows once he is out of office if the democrats don't get to him first he can still have a chance to run to Paraguay. Do the Bush family have any ties to them in any sort of way so they'd protect jr?

to care to live anywhere outside the US, IMO. Of course, if things get too heated here, perhaps a little Paraguayan protective hideaway might not be too bad. Didn't a lot of the Nazis go there to avoid extradition?

so un-sure he goes just one way. It gets to be a thing with people like that. Do not let one new thing in your mind as you may have been wrong. I love the elite who always think money makes them smart.

I haven't ever studied this part of WWII before so does anyone know why the Nazi's chose Paraguay as their hiding place?

Some of us have been mentioning this at DU for almost TWO YEARS now.

and to reach out and touch someone...Hugo Chavez.

We all can live somehow without the oil that the Bushies and friends have made zillions of dollars on. Water on the other hand is now becoming a wanted commodity in the USA and the rest of the world. The US government wants water on the NAFTA table with Canada. Canadians are not at all interested in this. I am sure Harper would like to help out his American neocon friends but he will most likely be voted out of office the coming election.

Paraguay citizens may not be aware of what their government is doing. I suspect that Bush family knows where the next market for profits is and they are making preparations to continue their riches.

I also agree that establishing a large land base in Paraguay is very handy for attacking the leftist governments now in South America.

Moonies have been rumored to be involved with drug smuggling as well as the Bush family. It will be interesting as to how this develops.

that Poland Spring uses for their water. Believe me, it's more valuable than oil judging by the way the neighbors are fighting over water rights.

had plenty of time to say no----.

Commander AWOL should feel right at home there, since it is a documented fact that his grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a traitor to the USA and the special banker to Hitler and the Nazis.

Why did the Bush family ensure that the Nazis had the money to buy guns to kill our sons and daughters?

Has America ever had a more traitorous entity than Commander AWOL's grandpoppy: Prescott Bush?

Quite a cozy group. Bloody Latin American dictators, Henry Kissinger and Nazi war criminals.

... seems like a low number.

"Heh heh... Cindy will never find me here. Now, watch this dri-- hey, what the...?"

Let's all move to Paraguay and set up shop next to the Bushies!! :bounce:

Bush's reading list covers salt, czar, flu

Warren Vieth
Los Angeles Times
Aug. 19, 2005 12:00 AM

CRAWFORD, Texas - Gas prices are climbing, motorists are fuming and President Bush is at his ranch with a book about the history of salt.

There could be a connection.

According to the White House, one of three books Bush chose to read on his five-week vacation is Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky, who chronicled the rise and fall of what once was considered the world's most strategic commodity.

More:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0819b12wire19.html

indictments are finally returned on him.

too bad they're surrounded.

From the beginning of a review ...

"The world is full of deposed dictators and dictator hangers-on, whiling away their imposed retirement living high on the hog on money looted from the treasuries of the countries from which they were forced to flee..."

... for the movie, 'The Boys of Brazil.'

Our story begins with a (young man) sneakily following a well-dressed old man around some city in Paraguay. The old man is an escaped ... war criminal ...

Intoxicated with excitement at what he has learned, Barry calls his hero, ... Lieberman, at his home/office ... Lieberman is less than impressed. As he snidely tells his sister, “This young man has just discovered that there are (neo-cons) in Paraguay.”

Because if Jenna was sent down to purchase a family homestead, Daddy will find himself with a strip joint on his hands...