tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467891.post112317420679217914..comments2023-11-03T04:19:00.473-05:00Comments on BOLI-NICA On Bolivia, Nicaragua, Latin America, US Politics, Globalization: U.S. Soldiers In Paraguay - Makes For Gossip, Speculation and Paranoia.Boli-Nicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416904838567704211noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467891.post-1136698803714939702006-01-07T23:40:00.000-06:002006-01-07T23:40:00.000-06:00Your're a refreshing alternative to the leftist tr...Your're a refreshing alternative to the leftist tripe I've read about this issue. Having lived in Paraguay and visited there from time to time over the last 20 years, I believe I can speak with more accuracy than most. While they have their small share of paranoid constituents, and Che Guevara romantics and mythologyzers, Paraguayans by and large are favorable of the United States. Paraguayans haven't forgotten 9/11 and support the U.S. in its struggle against radical Islam and the glogal terrorism it has spawned.<BR/><BR/>I've walked the steets of Ciudad del Este (also when it was named Ciudad Presidente Stroessner) in Paraguay's eastern frontier and crossed the Friendship Bridge to Brazil. If you're a criminal with cash you can move back and forth anonomously with the greatest ease. You have to be incredibly naive not to consider that they're just might be a rational interest in monitoring the activities of a substantial Arab immigrant population that only recently arrived in Ciudad del Este the 1980s. We know the early 1990s deadly bombings at a Jewish Community Center and the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was the work of Hamas with support of the Iranian government. It's very plausabile that this community provided support for this attack.<BR/><BR/>We would be remiss if we didn't look at Paraguay's own national interest for hosting U.S. troops. First, Paraguay's concern about it's own terrist threat. Let's not forget former President Luis González Macchi's daughter's brutal kidnapping and slaying by members of the Colombian FARC. She was visciously murdered after the exorbiant ransom was paid. Both Argentina and Brazil have exploited Paraguay in their MERCOSUR arrangement with exterme arrogance and condesention. Naturally, Paraguay should look for more favorable bi-lateral relationships. The joint training activities and assistance by U.S. troops and FBI personnel is clearly in both countries' interest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467891.post-1131317860223829292005-11-06T16:57:00.000-06:002005-11-06T16:57:00.000-06:00Wonderful Blog.Thanks for all the information and ...Wonderful Blog.<BR/>Thanks for all the information and for putting up a useful site.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.travelacity.info/travel-spain" REL="nofollow">blank map of south america</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com