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DIMWITS IN PARAGUAY; BUSINESS, COUP, REFUGE OR A COMBINATION?

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Written by Brian Johnstone   
Monday, 29 November 1999 18:00
In the wake of the recently-hyped opening of the oxymoronically named Dimwits Bush library (I utterly refuse to call him anything else, so get used to it) I have decided to lay this article out, which you can bet will never make it into whatever revisionist glorification and sick-making lies inhabit that grimly inappropriate memorial to the worst president AND administration in US history, a frat-brat ignoramus who screwed up everything he ever tried before his two “selected” terms and continued this pattern true to form in office.

Ever since I learned that the Bush clan had bought 98,000 + acres in Northern Paraguay, followed by the 2012 re-coup by the right of the first mildly progressive government in that unfortunate county’s dark recent history, most especially featuring the 35-year dictatorship of the Fascist and Nazi war criminal shelterer president Alfredo Stroessner, I’ve been wondering “Why Paraguay”?

I was there on a visit during Stroessner’s repressive rule and it’s hardly an earthly paradise, with some notable and shiningly beautiful exceptions, like the Parque National Cerro Corra, the Guarani River Basin and the adjacent Iguazu falls, the Parque National Ybycui and some others. It’s a land locked, backward and poor country with a great deal of Indian place-names but a repressed and cowed indigenous and peasant population.

And given the lamentable ignorance and lack of curiosity of international affairs and nations prior to and during his disastrous terms in office, why would Dimwits’ daughter Jana, be sent down to the steamy middle of the huge continent to the south, now happily slipping from the US’s thrall and long-term domination beginning with Venezuela’s recently deceased Hugo Chavez, then Bolivia’s Evo Moralés, then Lula of Brazil (now the world’s sixth-largest economy under his successor, Dilma Rousseff), Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, all progressive and having kicked the US military bases and the CIA beyond their shores?

I mean, I’d have been surprised to learn that this former disgrace to the presidency even knew where Paraguay was on a map, a fact giving a certain amount of credibility for the argument of a conspiracy; but to what end?

1) Well, Bush “fille” ostensibly and officially traveled 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.

It all came to her being the signatory on behalf of her father for the purchase of a large tract of land in the North of the country. But again, why, o’ why? And why be concerned about it up here?

Stay tuned.

As we who follow more content-rich news sources beyond the appalling US Corporate media know by now, WATER is becoming the new oil as the planetary population increases and aquifers become invaded and drained.

The Bush acres in Northern Paraguay sit smack on the huge, pristine Guarani Aquifer (largest in the South American continent –perhaps in the world-) spreading out under huge tracts of eastern Paraguay, Northeast Argentina, Southwest Brazil and Northwest Uruguay! So there is heavy speculation everywhere except of course in the US corporate media, that the clan is panning to drill into the aquifer, access the water and sell it to the people who live there. Now this is uncannily like the nefarious scheme headed by Bechtel in 2002 who pushed for privatization of Chochabamba, Bolivia’s water after centuries of inter and independent use of the area’s wells and aquifer. When the city and province saw that they were being ripped off, they cancelled the contract after which Bechtel sued them. It all ended up by Bechtel and it’s international subsidiaries being kicked out of the country, cemented by the advent of Moralés, Bolivia’s first indigenous president. So: Business as usual by the slime-coated Bush clan??

2) Another rumored land deal involves the US military and Paraguay. Five hundred US troops arrived in Paraguay 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 Mraiscal Estigarribia, Paraguay is potential real estate for the US military. The timing of the US military operation into Paraguay and the Bush clan’s land acquisition in the country can hardly be seen as anything but linked.

Then more recently in 2008, the removal and coup-like impeachment of popularly elected leftist president Fernando Lugo after just a short term in office, could hardly be a coincidence. Lugo had been a longtime political activist championing the needs of Paraguay's landless peasants. Incensed by social injustice all around him, he spoke out against the country's right-wing Colorado party. In a shot across the bow of vested elites, Lugo proclaimed his support for land reform.

Even before Lugo came to power, Washington saw Paraguay as a key regional ally against leftist Hugo Chávez of Venezuela (and the growing number of left-leaning progressive governments around the giant continent). Perhaps, Washington reasoned, the Pentagon could provide medical and humanitarian relief to impoverished Paraguayans. It all sounded relatively benign, though the Bush White House was careful to employ the stick, bluntly informing Asunción that if the authorities failed to host US troops then Washington would cut off millions in aid.

So we are faced with the “Coup” scenario, Bush-driven (remember Daddy was formerly head of the C.I.A.).

3). Reports suggest that actions being taken by the Bush Family are in response to the expected War Crime Charges being filed by the International Committee for the Red Cross, which wasreported on in AL Jazeera’s October 15, 2005 report titled ‘War Crimes’ Portfolio against United States President, Vice President and Defense Secretary Opened By International Committee of the Red Cross Charging ‘Crimes Against Humanity’, and wherein was stated: "Kremlin sources are reporting today that the International Committee of the Red Cross, based in Switzerland, has opened a War Crimes Portfolio charging the United States President, Vice President, Defense Secretary, United States Military Commanders and the majority of United States Senators and Congressmen with ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ over what the United Nations has declared as an ‘illegal war’ in the Middle Eastern Country of Iraq, and where the innocent civilian death toll is nearing 30,000 –now of course in the hundreds of thousands not to mention the death, dismemberment, mental damage and morals of thousands of the US troops used as cannon fodder by that criminal conspiracy cabal, for personal enrichment and power. Remember, the ties between the Bush Family Cartel and Paraguay predate the former American President and have their roots going back to his grandfather Prescott Bush, the top American financier for the German Nazi Regime.

These ties between South America and the Bush cabal were further solidified during the 1970’s when the former Dimwit’s father, George Bush Sr., was director of the C.I.A., and working with then US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, unleashed what was called ‘Operation Condor’ upon the South American Continent, the most notorious outcome being the US sanctioned and encouraged murder of democratically elected Leftist President Salvador Allende (I have an acquaintance now living in in Spain who was a leading Allende campaigner and had to flee the country, as did the wonderful Chilean musical group “Inti-Illimani), replacing him with the murderous General Pinochet, plunging the country back into a repressive dark ages of torture and “disappearances” (He was admired and friends with the late, appalling Margaret Thatcher).

So given the foregoing War Crimes portfolio and already existing designations by other countries increasing apace, is the Bush dynasty (die-nasty) land purchase in Paraguay combined with the designated immunity from ICC prosecution of the US military by the Paraguayan senate, a final “Refuge” for the criminal clan, it’s patsies and allies in the event that the ICC and other nations take long-overdue joint action against them? After all Paraguay has a lengthy history of giving other notorious Nazis succor, most notably Martin Bormann and Dr. Mengele
Or why not the multiple co-conspiracy of “All the above”? After all, it would fit the family profile of dealing with and driving the extreme right at home and overseas in trying to create a “New World Order” first coined by Bush senior shortly after his inauguration.
Incidentally, I’m no dedicated conspiracy theorist but the seqence of events and timing is far too linkable to ignore. I’ve been wanting to put this out there for discussion for a long time following a good deal of personal research and would welcome any comments, further information or theories related to the subject.
The hoopla adhering like flies around dung over the library opening was the last straw that pushed me into writing all this down. I wish that it could be trumpeted to the sky on behalf of all the death done by this former alleged proponent of “Compassionate conservatism”.
Woof, I needed that! B.J.
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