[msnimje]

Yep, that'll work. It worked in,.... uh,....

[conservativecorner]

Much of South America seems to be following this road to disaster.

[SF Republican]

Yes, we have no bananas.

[highlander_UW]

Of course, and the Soviet Union proved how well centralized control works. This just in...the Soviet Union collapsed.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Arepas

[Zuben Elgenubi]

stuffed arepas

[Skylab]

I see that Chavez has hired Willie Green as his economic advisor.

[Fiddlstix]

........President Hugo Chavez says he is leading a socialist revolution for the poor.

Yeah! Right!
Same old story.....

[Jaysun]

We have to continue to push for free trade the world over.

[tet68]

"I don't think it's necessary to go straight to expropriation, but it's an option," Food Minister Rafael Oropeza told reporters during a tour of state-operated grain silos in the southwestern state of Barinas.

He said the government is prepared "to defend the right of access to food."

And naturally, if you have a right to access food, why
naturally you must access the labor needed to grow it.

Venezeula, the Zimbabwe of south america!

[germanicus]

The grabbing of supplies will work in the short term. Just wait until the domestic production of food stuffs falls right off the charts. It's the inevitable outcome of economic engineering by commies. Just look at Zimbabwe.

[daivid]

Price controls works. . . if you want to create artificial scarcity.

Only a harebrained dictator can create corn scarcity in an oil-rich country, with the oil barrel over $60.

[1rudeboy]

Oh that silly Bolivarian "free-trader" Chavez. What silly free-market scheme will he think of next?

[sarasmom]

Who is "John Gault" in real life?

[Redbob]

That'll work once, but come next fall...

[proud_yank]

Lets not forget that they voted this idiot in to office. Let them get a good, long taste of socialism.

Hopefully, our liberals will remember that 30 years from now, when Venezuela is in shambles and its up to us to send them money because people there are starving. In a nutshell: NO.

[winner3000]

(The consumer protection agency, Indecu, has seized more than 150 metric tons (165 tons) of powdered milk this month)

I can't wait to see how many metric tons of powdered milk will be produced next month!

[No Longer Free State]

Keep it up, Hugo, baby. That country will be ripe for a popular uprising in no time flat. Thanks for the help.

[ol' hoghead]

Communism promotes equality. Every one is equally poor and hungry, except the rulers.

[kublia khan]

Well Chaves I guess now we know where you got the money to send that heating oil to new England. Your just another third world thug starving your own people with policy's that have a 80 year history of failure.