Funny How Things Work

Neil Bush accompanies Moonies to meeting with Paraguayan president - apparently leaning on president Duarte to keep land private and out of the public domain. The Moonies own 1,482,600 acres in all in Paraguay. The Bushes and the Moonies are tied at the hip.

"Moon's various organizations and enterprises have large landholdings in northern Paraguay, on the border with Brazil, and the country's Supreme Court rejected in mid-2007 the expropriation of more than 52,000 hectares (128,395 acres) of Moonie-owned land ordered by Congress.
The high court's ruling was harshly criticized by Duarte because the expropriation was intended to help residents of the poor, remote town of Puerto Casado."

What do the Bushistas have to do with Paraguay?

Bush Family Buys 100,000 Acres of Land in Northern Paraguay

"Luis D'Elia, Argentina´s undersecretary for Land for Social Habitat, says the matter raises regional concern because it threatens local natural resources.

He termed it "surprising" that the Bush family is trying to settle a few short miles from the US Mariscal Estigarribia Military Base.
Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel warned that the real war will be fought not for oil, but for water, and recalled that Acuifero Guaraní is one of the largest underground water reserves in South America, running beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (larger than Texas and California together)."

Only water?

US Military Moves in Paraguay Rattle Regional Relations

"The Mariscal Estigarribia air base is within 124 miles of Bolivia and Argentina, and 200 miles from Brazil, near the Triple Frontier where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet. Bolivia’s natural gas reserves are the second largest in South America."

mariscal estigarribia air base, bigger than the airport at Asuncion

But Paraguay?

US footprint in Paraguay

"What may have upset many people here is that Paraguay signed an agreement that grants legal immunity to US personnel while on Paraguayan soil."

Fascists have always been welcome, and immune, in Paraguay

"Alfredo Stroessner came to power in 1954, but European correspondents who visited Paraguay during his rule used the term the "poor man's Nazi regime" to describe the Paraguayan government. The parallels may have been more than a coincidence, for many Nazi war criminals, such as Joseph Mengele, had settled there with Stroessner's blessing."