OK. - And what could be proved to make males to those 1998
BR (democracy) " democradure " of a quite ditador GOV-FHC ,
of many corrupcy in his own govern, * as none inspections
of CPI corruptions were accepted in that FHC time *,
inspite he FHC had declaired many times when he was a Senator:
** ALL CPI must be installed in the Congress at the point
there are suspictious facts ** , and PT of LULA informed
many suspictious facts , and invited to open CPI
( Parlamentary Inquiry Commisions ) , but the PSDB DENIED
to open those inquiry, at the time FHC was President.
as you said : >but nothing has been proven. :
>Opposite Foz is Ciudad del Este and it has been the focus of CIA
activities since at least 1998 as you can see below. However, as someone
else said in this thread, they haven't found anything. It was thought
that the bombers of the Israeli synagogue in Buenos Aires were based
in that area, but nothing has been proven.
This is an article from 1998.
JohnM wrote in message news:...
> In article <20040110204336.26181.00002526@mb-m15.aol.com>, DDupin
> writes
> >I wonder how many of the U.S. visitors to Brazil have Brazilian origins. In
> >southern Massachusetts (Boston and Cape Cod areas), there are at least 100,000
> >people of Brazilian origin (perhaps because a lot of Portuguese fishermen
> >settled here long ago). The few I've met talk about going home for yearly
> >visits -- I wonder if they'll have to get fingerprinted, too.
> >But, hey, we've got some wonderful Brazilian restaurants here now and some good
> >music, too.
> >But what about the contention made in the NY Times article that there are Al
> >Queada cells in the Iguacu Falls area? Is there any basis for that?
>
> Opposite Foz is Ciudad del Este and it has been the focus of CIA
> activities since at least 1998 as you can see below. However, as someone
> else said in this thread, they haven't found anything. It was thought
> that the bombers of the Israeli synagogue in Buenos Aires were based
> in that area, but nothing has been proven.
>
> This is an article from 1998.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Shady Business at Iguaçú Falls
> Paraguay's Smuggling Haven: Ciudad del Este
> Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13/14 June 1998 / NZZ Online, 19 June 1998
>
> Charles E. Ritterband
>
> Not far from the mighty Iguaçú waterfalls, one of the world's great
> natural spectacles, a spectacular drama of quite a different nature is
> played out. Paraguay's Ciudad del Este, which shady business has turned
> into the world's third-largest goods trading center, is a true microcosm
> of all the things that have given Paraguay the bad reputation it has.
> The country's president-designate has promised to clean up the scene.
> The contrast could not be greater: Iguaçú with its world-famous
> "cataratas" (cataracts) - a natural amphitheater some 2,700 meters long,
> in which 275 thundering, steaming, hissing, roiling waterfalls create an
> unparalleled natural spectacle. And, hardly more than 20 kilometers away
> across the border, the absolute opposite of this lofty, overwhelming
> natural beauty - Ciudad del Este, a consumer hell carved out of the
> jungle and sprouting like some tropical vine, in which only one thing
> counts: the quick dollar, regardless of how it is made. This place,
> which today so modestly calls itself "City of the East," was known until
> nine years ago as "Puerto Stroessner," in honor of Paraguay's longtime
> dictator.
>
> One of the first big promises made by Paraguay's president-designate
> Raúl Cubas Grau immediately following his election in early May, was
> that he would clean up Ciudad del Este, in collaboration with his
> country's Mercosur partners, and thus combat the phenomenon known here
> under the rather bland euphemism of "intermediación" (intermediary
> trade). But the term is a gross understatement. What it really
> designates is large-scale smuggling and counterfeiting operations
> running into the billions of dollars, exploiting Ciudad del Este's
> strategic position in the triangle where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina
> meet.
>
> Even more poisonous plants, however, flourish in the lawless jungle of
> Ciudad del Este, from the drug and arms trades to terrorism. It is
> questionable whether Cubas will be able to clear this tangled tropical
> thicket. Another, far more important question is whether, beyond his
> pious pronouncements, he really has the will to do so. His Colorado
> Party, the country's governing party for the past 51 years, is closely
> interwoven with the corruption that supports this government, and those
> who elected Cubas did so in part because they want things to remain as
> they are.
>
> [...]
>
> As you drive toward Ciudad del Este, through the faceless Brazilian city
> of Foz do Iguaçú, your attention is caught by gigantic, rather
> primitively painted billboards along the edge of the road, their texts
> telling you that Mona Lisa, mysteriously smiling, awaits your visit to
> Ciudad del Este. That's all the billboards say, heightening the mystery
> of what is behind the famous smile. Shortly before you reach the "Bridge
> of Friendship" which spans the Rio Paraná, connecting the Brazilian and
> Paraguayan sides, chaos grows. There are heavily laden pedestrians,
> beasts of burden and horse carts wending their way between dilapidated
> old buses wreathed in clouds of diesel fumes. Along the roadside,
> hawkers have set up their stands with all manner of things: consumer
> electronics, textiles, alcoholic drinks, tobacco products, bottles of
> perfume - as if Ciudad del Este is bursting at the seams with a
> superfluity of material goods.
>
> Many people cross the Bridge of Friendship on foot, especially Brazilian
> women who work on the other side as saleswomen, and petty merchants
> crossing the other way, who try to sell their cheap goods at street
> markets in Brazil or Argentina - and who smuggle thousands of things,
> worth an aggregate of as much as $13 million a year, on their own backs,
> or in the luggage compartments of cars and buses. But things do not
> always go smoothly. Not long ago, passersby on the Bridge of Friendship
> were being murdered.
>
> At the far end of the bridge is the customs house, and in front of it
> stand stocky men in jeans and cloth vests: the customs officers, as we
> are later informed, and those vests have extra-roomy pockets - no
> wonder, considering that the monthly wage of the customs "officials" is
> just $250, and often less. These men show absolutely no interest in
> passports or similar documents. Yet the security situation here has
> alarmed the Americans as well as Paraguay's partners in the Mercosur
> regional economic organization. For some time now, the presumption has
> been growing that terrorist groups linked to the extremist Hizbullah
> have taken root here, and there are concrete suspicions that two severe
> terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires which took a total of 115 lives -
> against the charity organization Amias in 1994, and against the Israeli
> embassy two years earlier - were planned in Ciudad del Este.
> About 15,000 Lebanese have settled in this city of 300,000 - the second
> largest city in the country - and almost as many live in Foz, the
> Brazilian city just across the border. In this virtually unmanageable
> urban thicket, terrorists easily find asylum. America's FBI recently
> opened an office in Brasilia and has launched a fact-finding mission in
> the region, with special emphasis on the hornets' nest known as Ciudad
> del Este. |
