Looks like Bushes bought Moonie land in Paraguay

[phoebe]

http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=8963 - article as a reminder of the purchase made recently

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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 U.S. 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".

Erasmo Rodríguez Acosta, the governor of the Alto Paraguay region where Bush's new acquisition supposedly lies, told one Paraguayan news agency there were indications that Bush had bought land in Paso de Patria, near the border with Brazil and Bolivia. He was, however, unable to prove this, he added.

Last week the Paraguayan news group Neike suggested that Jenna Bush was in Paraguay to "visit the land acquired by her father - relatively close to the Brazilian Pantanal and the Bolivian gas reserves".

The U.S. presence in Paraguay has been under scrutiny since May 2005 when the country's Congress agreed to allow 400 American marines to operate there for 18 months in exchange for financial aid.

and there's this from 2005

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif249.html

and this

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif250.html

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On the eve of the legislative session, tensions rose in Puerto Casado, a town of 6,000 on the Brazilian border, where a Catholic oriented community radio station was recently vandalized by unknown persons. The incident prompted the government to send a military contingent into the area to keep law and order.

In 2000 Reverend Sun Myung Moon representatives purchased the land for 22,5 million US dollars from Argentine company Carlos Casado, a corporation that in the late 19th century bought the entire Paraguayan Chaco region totaling over 5 million hectares ( 12.35 million acres).

and this
http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif252.html

and this
http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif256.html

and this

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif265.html

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Rev. Moon offers land donation to avoid parcel's expropriation
EFE News Service/November 24, 2005

Asuncion, Nov 23.-- The firm representing the interests of South Korea's Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Paraguay is offering to donate 30,000 hectares (75,000 acres) of land to avoid the expropriation of almost twice that amount of the property he owns in the northern Chaco region.

In September, Congress voted to seize a property encompassing just under 52,700 hectares (130,000 acres) administered by Moon's Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity and located outside the town of Puerto Casado.

The offer to donate the smaller parcel was presented to President Nicanor Duarte and to Congress and also includes the joint exploitation of another 150,000 hectares (375,000 acres) of Paraguayan land owned by Moon, according to a letter signed by association president Jacob Thiessen and printed Wednesday in the daily Abc Color.

In the letter, Thiessen says that the Delaware-sized estate, which totals some 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres), has not been exploited "rationally and conveniently" and that to provide a social solution to the inhabitants of Puerto Casado, Moon is offering to donate the 30,000-hectare zone which includes the town itself located on the Paraguay River on the border with Brazil.

The expropriated parcel forms part of the estate that Moon bought in 2000 from Argentine firm Carlos Casado. That corporation purchased the entire Paraguayan Chaco region totaling more than five million hectares (12.35 million acres, an area the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined) in the late 19th century.

The dispute over the expropriation divided the 6,000 townspeople of Puerto Casado.


Along with appointment of hard-core Moonie to head the UN World Food Program today one might wonder what is in the works???

[aquart]

1. Moon's land. So how much did they actually PAY for it?

Or is this another bribe for WHAT unspecified favor?

[blm]

2. Bush just approved a Moonie for World Food Bank. Remember this about Moon

He wants people to see him as Christ's successor sent to finish the job on earth that he was too wek to carry off - he controls over HALF this nation's fishing industry and the surrounding waters of MANY countries. He wants all the world's religions to unite under him. He also now owns all the land above the Guarani aquifer.

Think loaves and fishes.

When people are starving and thirsty during the world's water wars, it will be Moon who appears with a "miracle" for them.

[aquart]

4. Which would account for no US planning for global warming.

Is Moon aware that he is mortal and will die?

[EFerrari]

6. Moonies were also instrumental in misinforming Congress

during IranContra.

[phoebe]

7. precisely - quid pro quo but for what?? We also know that Duarte,

the President of Paraguay signed off on the deal allowing Moon to buy the property in 2005 despite the local population being dead set against it and Nicanor Duarte's promises of land reform.

[bluedogyellowdog]

3. Surprise!

Moonie land - Why doesn't this surprise me.

The bizarro Moonie cult has its tentacles all over the republican-conservative movement. It wouldn't surprise me if Bush and Cheney are closet members of this cult that claims the "Rev." Moon is Jesus. Wouldn't surprise me at all.

[wildbilln864]

5. I want to know why Bush sent 400 troops to Paraguay in...

the first place! This seems very suspicious. Do the Bush's think they can use the U.S. millitary for their own personal business interests? This should be thoroughly investigated IMHO!

[phoebe]

8. looks like Buschco hired their "Man in Havana" James C. Cason

to run Paraguay at the beginning of December 2005 though his nomination was in July and confirmed in November - smacks of back room deals going on right around the time of the land issues with Moon.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/15149.htm

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James Cason was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay on December 1, 2005. A career Foreign Service Officer with 30 years’ experience in Latin America, he was nominated by President Bush in July 2005 and confirmed by the Senate on November 4, 2005. He was Chief of Mission at the United States Interests Section (USINT) Havana, Cuba, from September 10, 2002 until September 10, 2005. Prior to assuming his duties in Havana, he worked in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs as Director of Policy, Planning and Coordination.

He previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, and Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Before, he was Political Advisor to the Commander of the U.S. Atlantic Command (USACOM) and to NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT). Mr. Cason also served at U.S. missions in San Salvador, El Salvador; La Paz, Bolivia; Panama City, Panama; Montevideo, Uruguay; Milan, Italy; Maracaibo, Venezuela; Lisbon, Portugal; and as the Guatemala desk officer at the Department of State.

During his 36-year career with the Department of State, Mr. Cason has won a variety of awards, including six meritorious honor awards, a Superior Honor Award, and the Department’s Distinguished Honor Award. He has also received the Joint Chiefs of Staff Best Essay Award and the Defense Intelligence Agency's Writing Award. Earlier in his career he graduated with distinction from the National War College. He received the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff's Joint Meritorious Service Medal and the Coast Guard’s Distinguished Public Service Award. He is a Minister Counselor in the Foreign Service.

More on him

http://havanajournal.com/politics/entry/james_cason_diplomacy_in_cuba_pro_and_con_debate/

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Cuba says he was a rude subversive who tried to foment a counterrevolution. When 75 dissidents were arrested and sentenced to lengthy jail terms in 2003, the Cuban government blamed Cason for their arrests.

‘’No one can deny that the chief of the Interests Section arrived with instructions to carry out provocations of all kinds against Cuba,’’ Castro said in a 2003 government TV show.

“I must recognize nevertheless that he has fulfilled the instructions of the Department of State with absolute seriousness, efficiency, rapidity, decisiveness.’’

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He’s no stranger to controversy. Early in his career, he was tossed out of Uruguay when his negotiations for the release of political prisoners held by a dictatorship were deemed to be interference in the nation’s internal affairs.

[blm]

9. good job, phoebe.

nice to have another warrior sticking with this story.