(Maria Grazia Labellarte)
08/05/16
http://www.difesaonline.it/geopolitica/analisi/brasile-paraguay-argentina-larea-de-las-tres-fronteras-come-base-del-terrorismo
The Tri-Border Area, or triple frontera, is the border area between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Its surface is about 2,500 square kilometers and is a region rich in natural resources. Right here it is the Guarani aquifer system, an important source of fresh water (The SAG war Maria Grazia Labellarte, 2015, nd.r). It is one of the largest groundwater reserves in the world, about 37,000 cubic km of water.
The three urban areas constitute the area are the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, the Paraguayan Ciudad del Este and the Argentine city of Puerto Iguazu, all three characterized by rapid urban and economic development over the past 40 years.
Ciudad del Este, founded in 1957, is the capital of Alto Parana in Paraguay and the second largest city in the country; It is located 330 km east of the capital Asuncion.
Foz do Iguacu extended to 191.46 km square in Parana State, gravitates around Itaipu, the largest hydroelectric plant in the world built by Brazil and Paraguay in the sixties. The populous and multicultural city, is among the main Brazilian tourist attractions.
Finally Puerto Iguazú, the Argentine city of the province of Misiones, built at the confluence of the Iguazú and Paraná rivers. Established in 1901, although separated from the other two main urban centers in the region, is part of the so-called Tri-Border Area grown exponentially thanks to an influx of Brazilians, Paraguayans, Argentines, Italians, Lebanese and Germans.
The different factors that were the growth engine of the region have prompted the increase in population: the population of the entire area has increased from 60,000 to 700,000 between 1971 and 2001. Only in Foz do Iguaçu for example, growth of the population it was of 401.3%.
Known by the TBA security issues are related to demographic trends and the failure to adapt the infrastructure required for an orderly growth.
social groups of different cultural orientation, religious and ethnic hatred have created a "micro-climate" in which local ties and a special sense of community have raised a very peculiar area is not comparable to any specific country.
The Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu for example, it has a population of 260,000 inhabitants, coming from 80 different nationalities. More than a third of the population is younger than 24 years. Besides the Portuguese and the Spanish, Arabic and Chinese are the most spoken languages (even more pronounced phenomenon in Ciudad del Este).
In Ciudad del Este's main ethnic communities are the Chinese, Lebanese and Korean; it is believed that the Chinese constitute the second largest ethnic minority in the TBA, with more than 15,000 Chinese residents in Paraguayan territory and more than 30,000 across the region, which represent the backbone of the commercial activities, facilitated by tax incentives.
The bank trusts China for example, it has established one of its nine international offices, and the first in South America precisely in Ciudad del Este.
Arab communities also constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in the TBA. A considerable number of Arabs began to emigrate during the sixties, especially in Foz do Iguaçu and Ciudad del Este, where over time have arisen schools, clubs and organizations linked to the Middle East. Arab immigrants who live in Foz do Iguacu condos are the second largest Arab community in Brazil (after Sao Paulo).
It is estimated that about 90% of the Arabs in Foz do Iguaçu and Ciudad del Este is Lebanese, the rest are mainly descendants of Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian.
The main export-import activities of TBA, particularly in Ciudad del Este, are just the preserve of the Arab community.
Most of the Arab population in the TBA are Muslim Shiite majority; along with these migration flows are Christian from Lebanon, Syria and North Africa, including many Egyptian Copts and Palestinian Christians, who emigrated more than fifty years ago.
Among the characteristic features of the Tri-Bord-Area there is no doubt the reputation of being a border area "lawless" and an area of easy transit of all types of goods, often real smuggling of everything that is considered illegal.
relevant logistics are its already mentioned urban centers, where there are already found links between Arab Muslim communities and Islamic radical groups. Being a "free" area with flourishing illegal activities configures it as the ideal ground to support recycling and fundraising fundamentalist terrorist groups. These conditions would fuel even the already endemic corruption and a further demand for smuggled goods and illegal documents.
However, it is appropriate to point out that in recent years all three neighboring countries of TBA have made enormous efforts to try to normalize the area at least from the point of view of legality. The law enforcement, however, appears particularly difficult. Geographically the land facilitates the drug trade, thanks to the surrounding impenetrable jungles that allow signs to hide the crime bases, training camps, plantations, clandestine laboratories and airstrips. An example is the Parana River, regularly used for illicit trafficking. The exponential and uncontrolled growth of urban centers is another factor that makes TBA a potential base of operations for terrorists.
In densely built-up and out of control, where the markets are full of advanced technology and low-cost instruments, in the general silence of world public opinion, the land where it grows develop laboratories for export fundamentalism.
(Photo: Defense Online)
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Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
4th reich.
There are still idiots in US & GB that think they have done well remaining here among us simple people.
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