Caracas takes golf courses for housing

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/29/06 | Fabiola Sanchez - ap

[Bangupjob]

The course existed long before urban sprawl filled up much of the mountain-fringed valley. What a ridiculous statement! That so-called urban sprawl was unchecked illegal immigration, from Colombia and the Caribbean. That's what happens when you quit policing your borders and let anyone in. They set up shantytowns, encircle your city, elect communists and come after your golf courses. It's really pretty sick, but it's really what happened in Caracas.

[Rome2000]

A 4 cent bullet sould solve all of this in a minute.

[VeniVidiVici]

50,000 homes would be built on 363 acres spanning the three golf courses.

50,000 homes on 363 acres? Sounds like just enough so everyone gets to live in their own outhouse.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

20 years ago we would have supplied rebels with arms to fight this kind of totalitarianism.

I guess we've got too many irons in the fire to deal with this now.

[Chode]

i suppose building the houses where the NEW golf courses could be built is out of the question...

[Bangupjob]

The reason they want to pack them in so tight is that they want to change the voter composition of the little city it's in - it's an opposition neighborhood and they want to change it into a drug-addled, crime-infested chavista one, the better to chase the good people out and leave only angry criminals and corrupt communists behind. It is the sickest thing I have ever seen.

Someone needs to fight this, it's absolutely criminal.

[Hilltop]

Grant me the indulgence my friend.

It would be quite a delicious irony if a bogey golfer in Caracas were to take an iron on a par three, strike a balata ball, hit Hugo in the head and make a hole in one.

I think I'll rest now with that sugar plum vision still resident in my mind.

I bid you and yours all the best.

Hilltop.

[tflabo]

"20 years ago we would have supplied rebels with arms to fight this kind of totalitarianism."

Nothing a well-placed cruise missile couldn't handle.
Chavez is a wild hog let out of the pen and needs to meet the BBQ grill..

[July 4th]

Long term, probably not good for Chavez. I'm sure there were plenty of elites who were members of these clubs who acquiesced in his rule as long as they were protected. Now, he's pissed them off.

[Bogtrotter52]

Read DU. The DUmmies think this is a GREAT idea

[LFOD]

Let's see how this works out:
50K "homes"/363 ac. = 137.741 "homes"/ac.
43,560 sf.(one acre)/137.741 = 316.25 sf. per "home"
About the size of a modest living room not including walkways, setbacks, access, yards (hah!), fencing, roadways, streets, right of ways, utilities etc.

Of course they will stack them to make them more accommodating. I presume their version of public housing is not too different from ours.

[Bangupjob]

They're gonna look like stalinist housing projects, bleak, gray, tall, mass-produced, rain-stained and ugly, the vile kind endemic to all communist regimes.

Meanwhile, Miguel at Devil's Excrement and Daniel at Venezuela News have some informed new commentary about this expropriation here:

http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/2006/08/29.html#a3021

and

http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2006/08/golf-course-wars.html

[Kitten Festival]

I hope they don't get their grubby hands on this.