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Venezuela seizes a landmark Hilton Hotel
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| October 13, 2009
Posted on 10/14/2009 6:47:16 AM PDT by george76
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To: FLAMING DEATH
Venezuela has smelly oil, Cuba has smelly tobacco.
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posted on
10/14/2009 7:23:35 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
To: GeronL
I stayed at the Hilton on Margarita Island about a 15 years ago and it was a beautiful place.
Several years ago, I stayed at the now Government owned Hilton in Caracas. It was a total disaster, most of the guests were Cubans there to “aid” Venezuela. I felt so uncomfortable that I wanted to leave the hotel so badly.
Venezuela is a beautiful country with wonderful people, I really weep for what is happening to them and unfortunately, I see so many parallels here in the U.S.
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posted on
10/14/2009 7:24:19 AM PDT
by
GWB00
(Barbara Streisand barely made it out of high school.)
To: GWB00
I see the parallels too. Its pretty scary.
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posted on
10/14/2009 7:30:46 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: 2banana
Agreed. At what point does a company look at a situation and just cut their losses and get out?
At first when this started I thought the US should step in somehow to protect American interests in Venezuela. Now, as this has gone on for sometime, I feel an incident like the Hilton is just a dumb business risk.
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posted on
10/14/2009 7:35:52 AM PDT
by
EBH
(it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
To: george76
WOW! My wife and I spent our wedding night there 18 years ago. We were married on the island. Took 6 of our family members there to stay for the prior week (in a much cheaper resort down the street) We were married the day before they left - The Admiral and I stayed an additional week as a "honeymoon". We treated ourselves to the upscale Hilton for the wedding night before returning to The Decameron.
How sad that it was taken over.
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posted on
10/14/2009 7:46:17 AM PDT
by
Damifino
(The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
To: george76
all private property in that country should be equipped with a self-destruct button
To: george76
‘...acquisition by force...’
or, in plain English, theft.
To: 2banana
Why any company keeps or maintains assets there is beyond me...
Would you buy it off their hands?
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posted on
10/14/2009 8:30:43 AM PDT
by
Jagermonster
(They will not force us. They will stop degrading us. They will not control us. We will be victorious)
To: TheCause
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posted on
10/14/2009 8:34:26 AM PDT
by
Jagermonster
(They will not force us. They will stop degrading us. They will not control us. We will be victorious)
To: george76
IF this is an American-owned company, why isn’t this an act of War?
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posted on
10/14/2009 10:34:52 AM PDT
by
Abundy
To: GWB00
Venezuela is a beautiful country with wonderful people, I really weep for what is happening to them and unfortunately, I see so many parallels here in the U.S. Never been there but the Venezuelans I've known completely match your description. Unfortunately, from what little I can gather they have now been ruined by this government.
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posted on
10/14/2009 8:37:09 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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