Window Shopping, Bush Style
Foreign news agencies, including the Latin American News Service, are reporting that Bush has purchased almost 100,000 acres in northern Paraguay, near the borders of Brazil and Bolivia. Rumors of the purchase began with Prensa Latina, the state-run Cuban news agency.
One of the orignial stories on the matter, seen here, translates as the following:
The eventual purchase of 40 thousand hectares in the Chaco Paraguayan on the part of the American president, George W. Bush, revives today as theme of public debate, after social and political authorities expressed uneasiness.
Although it has not been confirmed for official sources, the news that travels through the continent I need that the lands are located in Step of Country, near the reserves of gas of Bolivia and of the Guarani Aquifer, in the region of the Triple Border.
Last year, when the Paraguayan Congress approved a request of immunity for the American troops that unfold in the South American nation, were the media of local press the first in bringing to light the official agreement.
Now, the governor of the department of High Paraguay, Erasmus Rodriguez Goes to bed, he revealed to have listened versions that the u.s. president acquired those lands, and that are part, moreover, of an ecological reserve (Foundation Country).
In an interview that diffused the notified entry neike. com. py, Rodriguez referred that he does not have documents that can confirm the rumors that cite Bush as one of the components, godfathers or collaborators of that Foundation.
The routine one did neither he manage to talk on the phone with it referred company, neither he has an answer of the National Institute of Rural Development and of the Land, responsible for the lands of the Paraguayan State.
When he shot the alarm, because of the arrival to Assumption last week of Jenna, one of the daughters of Bush, a spokesman of the Department of Physical Planning was limited to say that most of the region of the Chaco corresponds to private enterprises.
He added that if the purchase mentioned is true, he could try a transaction by private lands and not of the State.
For the undersecretary of Lands for the Social Habitat of Argentina, Luis D' Elía, this theme should be cause for concern for the countries of the region, since they are in risk the natural resources that exist in the zone.
"It surprises exceedingly that the family Bush is trying to be written down on the aquifer, few kilometers of the future American military base, Marshal Estigarribia", he affirmed D' Elía in a communiqué.
Before the silence of the Paraguayan authorities, radial media coincided in which some political sectors are willing to investigate the truth of the information.
"The true wars will be for water, not by petroleum", notified the Argentine one Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in a comment on the Guarani Aquifer, freshwater subterranean the greater reserve of South America.
It located under a part of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, the Aquifer is a system of rocky layers portadoras of water that cover 460 thousand square miles, a greater space al of Texas and California united.
"United States already has problems of water in its southern states", assured the Nobel Prize of the Peace 1980.
Edging Castle, member of the Service of Peace and Justice in Paraguay, emphasized the increment of the presence American military in the area chaqueña, under the protection of an agreement between the governments of the two countries.
So, why would Bush need to buy so much land in Paraguay?
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