The Guardian ran this story back in 2006, as did other sources in the U.S., South America and Cuba. The word is that Jenna Bush went down to visit with Paraguay officials under the guise of volunteering for UNICEF. Most of the results coming up in search engines are from bloggers, discussion boards and forums (including an article on Democrats.com), all of which were calling for the major media outlets to pick up on these stories so we can learn more.
That was 2 years ago and little has been said since. Something worth keeping an eye on…
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Since some of the links above have been pulled, even from the IHT (hmmm), I’m looking for other sources to update this post.
An article titled “Intense Dispute in the Heart of the Southern Cone” (Nov. 2006): http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3663
“Secret Invasion: US Troops Steal into Paraguay” (Dec. 2005): http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/2479/1/140/
“Hideout or Water Raid? Bush’s Paraguay Land Grab” (Counterpunch, Oct. 2006): http://www.counterpunch.org/cp10202006.html
There’s not much to go on here aside from knowing that the U.S. had/has interest in Paraguay for military base installation, immunity no longer being granted to international criminals. Still keeping an eye on it…
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