What is Neil Bush Doing in Paraguay?

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BUSH REPORTED TO HAVE PURCHASED 99,000 ACRES IN PARAGUAY

Why might the president and his family need a 98,840-acre ranch in Paraguay protected by a semi-secret U.S. military base manned by American troops who have been exempted from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguayan government?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00308.htm

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ABC Color, a leading Paraguayan newspaper is also reporting today that Bush's younger brother Neil Bush attended a leadership seminar in which he spoke about instilling a "culture of service" to better unite individuals and organizations behind a plan that serves peace and the common good. Held at the Asunción Hotel , the seminar was titled:

"Toward a New Paradigm of Leadership and Government in Times of World Crisis."
http://www.abc.com.py/

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The International Herald Tribune has the story:

Neil Bush, younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, called on Paraguay's president as the guest of a business federation allied with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

A presidential press office source, who spoke on condition of not being named, confirmed the younger Bush met President Nicanor Duarte on Thursday along with a delegation from the Universal Peace Federation, a group associated with Moon.

Duarte had no statement on the meeting.

Antonio Betancourt, a spokesman for the federation, said that Bush visited Duarte and later met with an opposition congressional leader, Sen. Miguel Abdon Saguier, and that both expressed interest in the Bush family and discussed local matters.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/29/america/LA-GEN-Paraguay-Neil-Bush.php

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/1/7315/59141/62/466759