Security & Strategic Review October 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

PARAGUAY-BOLIVIA | Military link to drugs trade? On 13 October the badly burnt body of a Paraguayan marine NCO, Cristián Báez, was found in Esmeralda, in the Bolivian department of Tarija: his wallet with his identity papers had been left behind. Báez had been stationed at the naval border post of Fortí­n Anselmo Escobar, which oversees the area where the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers meet — one of the many virtually unknown 'triple border' areas, since the Pilcomayo river marks the boundary with Argentina.