Venezuela to Take Land from Four Private Farms

Reuters ^ | 03/13/05 | Patrick Markey

[captainblacksmith]

Cities do this all the time in the US. They "condemn" a city block by claiming it is a blight, so they can give the land to a developer to build a hirise hotel. That's what a redevelopment zone is, generally.

[M Kehoe]

Why is this news? That's what communists do. They take from people. Whether it's your land, your money, or your life, it doesn't matter. What's so hard to understand? Heck, we had a living laboratory for the last 77 years!

Communism hasn't worked ANYWHERE (a leftist would say the right people weren't in charge, or not enough of the intellectuals were killed, or there wasn't enough money).

Chavez and Castro are anachronisms. Hopefully Fidel will die from a bullet, and Hugo will be exiled to Iran.

5.56mm

[Bedford Forrest]

It's about time to see how many chin ups the fat little pointy toothed cannibal can do hanging off the skid of a Huey, about a thousand feet AGL. Rather than selling oil to all takers at the world price, he wants to play the vandal against us. He is playing footsie with the worlds most dangerous thugs, the mainland chicommies and sundry drug peddlers closer to home. Not a good career move. Apparently no one has told the little pointy toothed cannibal about the Monroe Doctrine. Soon he'll be learning all about it, the hard way.

[happyathome]

If 1989 and the last 6 weeks have taught us anything it is that totalitarian (not to mention incompetent) regimes like Chavez' are doomed to failure. The Venezuelan people will ultimately get rid of this guy, just like all the other lefty leaders recently elected in So America will eventually be turfed out. The only real survivor is Castro - because we validate his propaganda with our pointless blockade.

On another note, I'll be interested to see if the Euro- and American greenies get upset over his turning an eco reserve into a bunch of subsistance farms.

[RBroadfoot]

IMHO, Jimmuh was only the worst president in the latter half of the 20th century. He wasn't the worst person to be president, either; that dishonor goes to Clinton.

But, without a doubt, Carter is the worst ex-president of all times.

[DoctorMichael]

Scary stuff........and our attention is in the Middle East right now. This guys a friggin' clown.

[fella]

Communizing land. Who would of thought that someone who rubs elbows with Castro would do such a thing. Next comes the organized starvation of certain segments of the population. It should only take about 3 months.

[marron]

Jimmy Carter on vacation in this country invited by Gustavo Cisneros

Caracas, Sunday March 6, 2005

http://buscador.eluniversal.com/2005/03/06/pol_art_06191D.shtml

Ex-US president Jimmy Carter, starting Sunday will spend some four days vacationing in Venezuela along with Venezuelan magnate Diego Cisneros, according to sources connected to the US ex-president.

The 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner will visit along with his wife the paradise archipelago Los Roques (100 km north of Caracas) "for personal vacation", having been invited by the Cisneros family.

During the visit "no public visits nor official meetings with local authorities have been planned", added sources under conditions of anonymity.

Carter played a vital roll in the recent political crisis in Venezuela which reached its peak with the brief coup d'etat against president Hugo Chávez in 2002 and the 63 day strike that affected the vital oil industry in the country.

The ex-president, with his Carter Center, worked with PNUD and the Organization of American States (OAS) to resolve the crisis by organizing and observing a referendum on the Chavez government, who won August 15 with 60% of the vote, but with accusations of supposed fraud.

Carter and Cisneros have maintained a long personal relationship that showed in June of 2004 when the ex-president set up a meeting between Cisneros and Chávez to lower tensions between the two.

Chávez has publicly accused the magnate of promoting and financing a conspiracy against his government up until the date of the meeting organized by ex-president Carter.

[Fast1]

Yes by all means take from the Bad white man! Sarcasm

[Victor]

How does this one-term loser get a Seawolf class Sub named for him?

I mean, really....?

I can't imagine the navy pushing this...unless some of the perfumed princes in the DOD had something to do with it.

I don't think any real patriotic military personnel could even come up with the idea.

I was in Groton, Electric Boat about 2 years ago and saw this amazing boat near completion. Truly a masterpiece of engineering and shipbuilding skill.

[henderson field]

Sounds like creeping Zimbabwe-ism.

[henderson field]

Yes, and then after the predictable starvation and disease in Venezuela, you can bet they will come here and say "save us, America."

[drt1]

Probably, but they will come here - You know, to 'Take the jobs no American will do'. :-)

[Iconoclast2]

The Monroe Doctrine was formulated by patriots who put American first. There are no such politicians in Washington, D.C., as far as I can tell.

[feedback doctor]

Change the country, dates, and names, and we have Stalin, Russia, and the 1930s to produce forced collectivization.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "The Monroe Doctrine was formulated by patriots who put American first. There are no such politicians in Washington, D.C., as far as I can tell."


Ditto on that, but history has proven that the Monroe Doctrine will survive this lull to see the light of a future presidency. Sooner or later, Chavez is going to force us to take action, and it won't be pretty. Between his increasingly open funding and support of the violent, drug-running FARC guerillas in Colombia and the fact that he is using his control of the world's largest non-Arab oil reserves to subsidise his communist mentor's despotic regime, Something tells me this fat little commie murderer won't live to reach Fidel's ripe old age.

Like Daniel Ortega and Pineapple face Noriega, Chavez will push the wrong President too far. I hope that Bush has the guts to be that man. The CIA IS there for a reason, you know? USE IT!

[HKTechBoy]

How dare you say that about our President, I know he has some very smart people working on something right now about that godless commie. Dubya is always one step ahead of the left. Always.

[Iconoclast2]

Out in the Pacific Northwest, where I live, Dubya is one step ahead of the Left in implementing the Left's agenda, but perhaps that's the price we pay for living in a blue state.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Mugabe with crude oil.