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and who is aligned, politically, with the strongest leftist democracies of South America. In winning the election this year, the new president, Fernando Lugo--the beloved "bishop of the poor"--overturned 61 years of rightwing rule, including a long, heinous, U.S.-backed dictatorship. There was a big celebration at his inauguration, with all the many leftist leaders of South America in attendance. (And there is a great vid going around of Lugo and Hugo Chavez doing a rendition of "Todo Cambia" ("Everything Changes")--a popular S/A song--on stage at the inauguration party.)
2. When Lugo was elected, his neighbor Evo Morales, sent him this message: "Welcome to the Axis of Evil."
3. Paraguay rescinded its non-extradition law; also its law immunizing the U.S. military.
4. Paraguay is a member of the Bank of the South (one of Chavez's best ideas--local control of finance and development).
5. I have yet to see any corroboration of the Bush Cartel land purchase in Paraguay. The rumor has been around for quite some time. It's still only a rumor.
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This is not to say that Fernando Lugo, a former bishop, wouldn't accommodate Bush for reasons that the left might find unfathomable. Lugo is a highly unusual politician. He is a 'Liberation Theology' priest (the Church is obligated to join the political struggles of the poor), and the genuine article. Lived all his life with the poor. Identifies with the poor. Not a hypocritical bone--nor an ambitious bone, nor a cynical bone--in his body. For this very reason--that he has a more open heart than a normal politician--it is conceivable that he would consider it an act of charity not to oppose Bush living in his country. (He recently visited the White House, by the way--a courtesy that the Bushwhacks did not extend to his friend and neighbor Evo Morales, president of Bolivia.) Conceivable--but not too likely. The trend in South America is to bring mass murderers and torturers to justice. And Lugo is very much aligned with those who are doing so. He might also have the reason of some benefit to the poor. He once said that "Paraguay is neither left nor right--Paraguay is POOR!" He feels a great obligation, indeed, to bootstrap Paraguay's poor. (It is one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere.) And he may take help wherever he can get it. However, once again, the trend in South America--especially among his closest allies--is for South American countries to band together and help each other, and to reject the bribes, and 'free trade' garbage, and U.S. military 'war on drugs' booty, and World Bank/IMF loan sharks, and all the corrupt ties that have violated the sovereignty of South American countries, and harmed the poor, for so long.
One other thing: Lugo's transformative election as president, this year, may have been a key element in the defeat of the Bushwhack plot to instigate a fascist, white supremicist insurrection against Evo Morales' government in Bolivia, which played out this September--in fascist riots and murders--and failed. The plan may have been to provide U.S. military support for the coup from Paraguay. (Bolivia is landlocked.) All of South America united behind Morales when he threw the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out of Bolivia. Chile called a meeting of UNASUR--the new South American "Common Market" (sans the U.S.)--which immediately and unanimously backed Morales, and has taken effective action to prevent the split-up of Bolivia, and the return to the rule of law of the secessionist provinces (which are adjacent to Paraguay).
So this is some of the background and current circumstances in which a potential Bush refuge in Paraguay should be considered. Paraguay has changed--dramatically and definitively, and is now in accord with the rest of the continent, in which an awesome, peaceful, democratic, leftist movement has largely succeeded. Bush would be 'persona non grata' virtually everywhere, except Colombia--the narco/fascist state supported by $6 BILLION in U.S.-Bushwhack military aid--the biggest U.S. military aid package on earth outside of Israel. Colombia is the most dangerous place on earth for union leaders and other leftists, but it is the safest place on earth for mass murderers. Bush would be welcome by the fascist thugs running Colombia, and might be safe in an armed-to-the-teeth compound there--and would have an assured supply of cocaine as well.
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