Venezuela: Six additional farms to be seized in Cojedes State

El Universal (Venezuela) ^ | Jan 10, 2005 | Staff, translated by Conchita Delgado

[Kitten Festival]

Land interventions in Cojedes State will continue next Wednesday. In this way, the decree issued by Cojedes Governor Johnny Yánez Rangel with regard to 16 estates will be enforced. Following the effective intervention of El Charcote farm last Saturday, regional authorities plan to seize several properties of the Boulton family in Cojedes, such as Gavinero, Yaguara, San José and La Flecha.

Rafael Alemán, the Cojedes State Secretary-General, said under this schedule of interventions, Paraima and Piñero -both properties of the Branger family- will be intervened next January 13th and 14th, respectively.

[Kitten Festival]

The thug is moving on to bigger and better things.

[drt1]

As one other FReeper so eloquently put it - "Hunger and disease are a comin"

He's apparently following the Zimbabwe model.

[livius]

He's emboldened. To my knowledge, there was not a squeak about this in the mainstream US press, and the British government doesn't seem too concerned. He got away with it once, so why not try it again - and again, and again...

[Monterrosa-24]

In El Salvador, much of the most productive land (yield per Hectare) was confiscated via the "land reform". And who supported this first generation Marxism? -- The U.S. State Department/the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador took great pride in supporting "La Reforma Agraria".

And did the confiscated land stay productive? Nyet! the Leftists did not want to give unrestricted land titles to the poor because "the rich people would buy the land back". So many cooperatives were established which failed to be competitive with the previous productivity.

[Kitten Festival]

Absolutely correct. You are one of the few people who know the truth.

[Kitten Festival]

Zackly. He set out a test balloon and decided it was all systems go.

[Monterrosa-24]

To paraphrase a line in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN "A coup d'etat or a golpe de estado is a terrible thing......but it is about time we had one!"

[marron]

The thing that limits the size of large "unproductive" land holdings in the US is "property tax".

But if the owner is making his property taxes, unproductive is good, its a protected space for the natural wildlife.

Venezuela's urban poor don't want to live in the boondocks, and don't have the financing or knowhow to make ag land productive. Since the land was taken from someone by the government in the first place, your title to the land becomes strictly a polite fiction that has value only while the current administration holds power, and only as long as you don't attract any attention to yourself as a member of the opposition.

Mexico has used land reform similarly, handing out land to members of the ruling party, who were required to show up for party meetings and such in return for being "allowed" to hold title.

If your ownership is dependent on the good graces of the current ruling party, you are not inclined to take public positions on anything that might invite trouble. That means your land isn't really your land, and it means you aren't a free man.

[Pearls Before Swine]

If your ownership is dependent on the good graces of the current ruling party, you are not inclined to take public positions on anything that might invite trouble. That means your land isn't really your land, and it means you aren't a free man.

Drug warriors take note. Smoke a doobie--medically justified or not--on your U. S. porch or in the privacy of your shuttered home--and it may be yours no longer.