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(回答先: パラグアイの水資源と土地を買い占めた文鮮明を護衛する米軍派遣、勿論麻薬がらみ 投稿者 サラ 日時 2005 年 9 月 11 日 03:42:03)
エコノミスト誌の一月前の記事。あんまり詳しくないですが、右派誌でも取り上げるんだなあ、と思いました。
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パラグアイの議員はプエトロカサドと言う町を統一教会の搾取から救うべく土地と建物を収容すると言う法案を提出した。ムーニーのような滅多にいない「開発投資者」の土地を収用することは投資を呼び込むのに不利であると言う意見もあるが「国家の中の国家（"エデンの園"）」を作る統一教会の行動は放置できないと言うことで、ドゥアルテ大統領の政権与党は下院の通過のために賛成の召集をかけている。
また、文鮮明のウルグアイに所有する銀行が清算され、ブラジル域での開発は地域の反発に遭っていて、自称「救世主」にも奇跡の兆しもない。
http://www.economist.com/World/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4281060
Paraguay and the Moonies
Promised land
Aug 11th 2005 | ASUNCION
From The Economist print edition
A town owned by a cult seeks liberation
ONE day in 2000 the people of Puerto Casado, a small town in Paraguay's inhospitable Chaco region, were shocked to learn that the ground had been sold under their feet- and that their new lord and master was the Rev Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed messiah who leads the Unification cult, better known as the Moonies. Mr Moon's acolytes soothed locals' fears by promising all sorts of grand projects to make the town rich, from a meat-packing plant to an eco-tourism resort.
Five years on, with little sign of these promises being kept, hundreds of the town's people recently travelled 400 miles (640km) to the capital, Asuncion, to lobby Congress to free them from the cult.
Earlier this month, the Senate approved a bill to seize some buildings and a slice of the Moonies' land, to share among the locals. Backing the bill, President Nicanor Duarte Frutos accused the Moonies of paying their local workers “starvation” wages (they say they pay the legal minimum). His Colorado party should muster enough votes to pass the bill in the lower house.
The Moonies claim the row has been whipped up by local politicians to extort money from them. This week they began selling their cattle and laying off workers, forcing Mr Duarte to announce an emergency aid package for the town.
Mr Duarte says the townsfolk are living in “semi-feudal” conditions. But things remain much as they were long before Mr Moon came along. The town was part of a vast estate that Carlos Casado, a swashbuckling Spaniard, bought from a desperate Paraguayan government in the late 19th century, after it had lost much of its territory and people in a calamitous war with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
The town once made a good living from quebracho, a hardwood used to make tannin for the leather industry. By the 1990s, with the quebracho trees almost gone, the Casado company was looking to sell.
At this time, Mr Moon began buying land either side of the Paraguay river, on which the town lies. After discovering the region on a fishing trip, he decided that the future of his declining movement lay in this South American “Garden of Eden”.
Demands for fairer distribution of land are not unusual in Paraguay: most of it is owned by a tiny fraction of the population. The bill in Congress proposes seizing less than a tenth of the 600,000 hectares (1.5m acres) the Moonies own around Puerto Casado, for which they should get compensation - assuming the government can scrape together the money.
Though small in scale, the proposed seizure has caused a huge fuss. Paraguay's business federation laments that the country will never attract foreign investors if it mistreats the few, such as the Moonies, that it already has. The bill's congressional backers talk darkly of Mr Moon trying to build a “state within a state”.
Puerto Casado may be just another of Mr Moon's over-ambitious South American money-spinning ventures. Directly across the river in Brazil, his plans to build a model town, with new roads, hotels and classrooms, have had similarly underwhelming results. Late last year, Brazil's Movement of Landless Rural Workers led a mass invasion, claiming much of the project's land was lying idle. A bank bought by Mr Moon in Uruguay went into liquidation and his plans to redevelop a port there have been stymied by local opposition. For a would-be messiah, not much sign of miracle-working.
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