claiming thousands of people needed it to make a living. More than likely they decided they could make more money from it selling it to someone else!
Paraguay to expropriate some Moon holdings
EFE News Service/September 23, 2005
The authorization, which had already been approved in August by the Senate, will now be sent to President Nicanor Duarte for his signature.
Aristides Da Rosa, of the governing Colorado Party, said that the lower house's decision coincides with the stance taken by Duarte, who publicly urged legislators from his party to support the expropriation as part of agrarian reform.
"The government is giving a clear signal that it will recover the lands of the Chaco region for residents there and, more than ever, it has made this expropriation bill its own," said Da Rosa.
He added that the move will benefit thousands of families who currently have no way to make a living, and he rejected an alternative proposal presented on Wednesday by Moon's firm.
The expropriation initiative was pushed by a group of residents of Puerto Casado, which lies within the approximately 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres) that Moon's Unification Church owns in northern Paraguay's Chaco province.
Victoria S.A., a firm owned by followers of Moon, bought the 1.5 million acres in 2000 from the Argentine firm Carlos Casado, which in 1886 possessed all of the Paraguayan Chaco region, an expanse larger than Switzerland.
More:
https://culteducation.com/group/1277-unification-church/23811-paraguay-to-expropriate-some-moon-holdings.html
Very strange realizing how much of the original 1 1/2 million acres they still control. It's huge.
All this nonsense seems to be conducted in near secrecy, and people learn about it long after it's over. Whole lot moving beneath the surface, for sure. What a shame.
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