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2010-12-07 Caribbean-Latin America

Has Paraguay become a nerve center for terror?

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Posted by ryuge 2010-12-07 03:05|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 There is some weirdness down in Paraguay. In the last two decades, the Unification Church (Moonies), bought a large ranch. Then the US leased a small base for some 1500 US Marines nearby, for just 18 months.

Then H.W. Bush bought a very large ranch, next door to the Moonies, and managed by the former US ambassador to Paraguay, whose purpose seemed to be an intelligence op to monitor the border area with Bolivia and Argentina. Rather large airstrip.

Controversy about the Bush ranch was such, that the State Department used its USINFO branch to put out nebulous disinformation about it. They no longer comment about its existence, nor are visitors welcome.

Even the Paraguayan government was very nervous about it, out of fear of a possible US intervention.

On the other side of Paraguay is Ciudad del Este, their second largest city. The city has a large Asian-born population, specifically Taiwanese, Koreans, Arabs and Iranians, evident in the city's mosque and pagodas. The Taiwanese government paid for the construction of the city's town hall in exchange for Paraguayan support in the United Nations, hence the Taiwanese flag that flies on the building.

The Iranians, of course, have long been up to mischief in the region. They used Hezbollah to conduct two anti-Israeli/anti-Jewish bombings in Argentina in the early '90's. By now Paraguay is probably loaded with al-Quds, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Syrians.

Senator Lieberman did a South American tour based on US concerns that Venezuela and Bolivia were planning to provide Iran with uranium. But he also wheeled and dealed in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Colombia.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-07 08:08|| 2010-12-07 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Wasn't Paraguay where a lot of Nazis fled after the war?

Posted by Glenmore 2010-12-07 08:39|| 2010-12-07 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Wasn't Paraguay where a lot of Nazis fled after the war?

Most of the region was blessed after the war with that peculiarly German mix of efficiency and hate. But, as many of the countries were already ruled by military fascists, eg. Peron, they fit right in. Their children went to private German schools, where about half of the students were children of the German Jews who'd fled the Nazis before the war. An entire generation didn't ask their classmates who their fathers were, on both sides.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-07 12:47|| 2010-12-07 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Most of the region was blessed after the war with that peculiarly German mix of efficiency and hate. But, as many of the countries were already ruled by military fascists, eg. Peron, they fit right in. Their children went to private German schools, where about half of the students were children of the German Jews who'd fled the Nazis before the war. An entire generation didn't ask their classmates who their fathers were, on both sides.

That's the sort of comical situation that gives me hope that there is a God and he does have a sense of humor.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-07 12:58|| 2010-12-07 12:58|| Front Page Top

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