[Mike Darancette]

Holdout?

[Mike Darancette]

A little reconquista, Bolivian style.

[Gay State Conservative]

Bolivia's president has given more than 30,000 square km (18,600 sq miles) of land to indigenous peasant communities under a programme of agrarian reform. Evo Morales launched the programme after landowners walked out of talks with the government, warning they would take action to defend their estates.

I pity the decent people of Bolivia because they're about to learn a lesson that Zimbabweans are still learning and which the citizens of the Ukraine learned in the 30's and the citizens of China learned in the 50's and 60's.

[Sweetjustusnow]

"Bolivia's big landowners, he said, had to accept that the lands their ancestors stole during the Spanish conquest five centuries ago would now be returned to their original owners."

We have similar things albeit a bit more quietly insideous that are going on right here in the USA.

Water Sheds, Greenways, Wildlife, indigenous people, historical takings, etc. etc. etc.

[Richard Axtell]

Fame, then Famine. Morales will go down in history... with Robert Mugabe, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Dung, Pol Pot, and other champions of human rights. How true it was and it remains so, when Thomas Jefferson said “the tree of liberty must constantly be refreshed by the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

[armydawg1]

Can you say "Zimbabwe?"

[mmercier]

This policy worked out well in Zimbabwe.