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The Bush Family's Bad Latin Real Estate Investment

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By Dave Lindorff 

Back in late 2006, it was widely reported in the Latin American media that President Bush, or perhaps his old man, had bought a 100,000-acre farm in a remote area of Paraguay.

What struck people at the time was the choice of country. Paraguay, of course, has gained a certain Club Med status among the world's villains and criminal elements as the place to go when the law's on your tail. The country, ruled for six decades by the dictatorial and fascist Colorado Party of Gen. Alfredo Stroesser, an almost cartoon charicature of a Latin American dictator, has no extradition treaty with any nation.

That's why it has long harbored aging Nazis, bank robbers, and a string of ousted or retired Latin American dictators and their assistants over the years.

Given that President Bush, once he leaves office on January 20, 2009, will no longer have the diplomatic immunity conferred upon heads of state, or the Constitutional protection against indictment by domestic prosecutors, it makes sense that he would be looking for a safe haven from the long arm of the law.

After all, they guy is guilty of a huge laundry list of international crimes, from the Crime Against Peace and Conspiracy against Peace in the UN Charter, to Geneva Convention violations like approval of torture of prisoners, collective punishment of civilians, the killing of children and child soldiers, the failure to protect occupied citizens, the use of banned weapons, etc., etc., and also of domestic crimes, ranging from political use of government employees, conspiracy, treason, lying to federal officials, defrauding Congress, etc.

No wonder he wants to do what Klaus Barbie, Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann did, and hole up in Paraguay.

Only trouble is, Paraguay may not be such a safe haven for long.

Last month, a former Roman Catholic Bishop with leftist, populist tendencies, Fernando Lugo, surprised almost everyone in Paraguay, and no doubt President Bush, by winning the national presidential election, ousting the Colorado Party for the first time in 61 years. There is talk that among other things, Lugo is thinking of returning Paraguay to the community of nations, by signing some of those extradition agreements.

If he does that Bush may be stuck having to hide behind his rump squad of Secret Service agents down at the Crawford Ranch, hoping they can keep the process servers from Brattleboro and Marlboro, VT, with their war crimes arrest warrants, at bay.

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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist. His latest book is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now available in paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net

 

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Dave Lindorff, a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His (more...)
 

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Bush...

He can run, but there's nowhere he can hide or find safe haven, it would seem.

by Vierotchka (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 39 comments) on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 3:51:32 PM

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with extradition on the table.....

Paraguays new leader will probably need to be ever vigilant against "suicide", "heart attacks", & such... stay out of planes, trains, cars and for pete sake never be in the open for any event or reason no matter how benign...at least until Bush & Co are all out..and maybe longer. You know how it can be with these mysterious happenings... just baffling how these things seem to happen to really decent people..like those with a conscience, whistle blowers and the like. Very strange indeed...sort of reminds one of what JFK, RFK, MLK got for bucking the agendas of the twisted and sick.  Maybe we could loan him some of our really clever covert, secret CIA ops...Ooops... Wait... On second though that's definately not a good idea. Blackwater maybe...no....thats not good either.. Guess we will just have to settle for wishing him well since we don't seem to have anyone here that protects good people.

by Rae (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 230 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 5:29:32 PM

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Extradition Treaty

I'm sure there are other countries besides Paraguay that don't have extradition treaties.

by Ty (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 888 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 10:32:09 PM

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