Posted on 08/30/2006 10:05:50 PM PDT by Dane
The government of Hugo Chavez may expropriate two popular, historic Venezuela golf courses. The two Caracas courses -- Caracas Country Club and Valle Arriba golf club -- both more than 60 years of age -- would be removed to create up to 50,000 homes for the poor, in the poverty-stricken nation …
Meanwhile, it appears Deepdale Country Club will be safe, after a judge ruled that the elite club could not be seized by eminent domain by the city of North Hills, N.Y. …
Had a room mate in grad school from Venezuela and I played the Caracas Country Club during a visit some years later. Nice course but nothing really special. As I remember, it was a par 70, uncrowded and well maintained.
They're going to need some of those homes for the employees of the golf courses and other dependent businessees, who will join the impoverished after the elimination of their jobs.
He's going to run that beautiful country into the ground like Fidel did to once beautiful Cuba. What a complete shame.
Kelo vs. New London?
That was my impression. It was kind of like Encinitas, I thought. I've lived in fancy places like Beverly Hills and this Caracas course wasn't fancy. Nice, but not wildly luxurious.
Here is my photo essay on that targeted course in Caracas:
http://www.publiuspundit.com/?p=2892
Way worse. More like the storming of the Winter Palace. This is communists in action. They're trying to steal the one green spot in Caracas for the purpose of turning it into a shantytown. In Kelo, the seizure was of scruffy homes to turn them into upscale ones - this is exactly the opposite - taking nice land and trying to turn it into a pigpen to punish the rich and bring in a whole bunch of Katrina-type welfare-shantytown voters in, so that only communists will be elected to the city government in the future. It's just plain sick. They're doing it to DRIVE DOWN property values and impoverish the middle class.
They voted him in once - after that, they held a recall referendum to get rid of the guy. He stole that election.
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