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In Venezuela, Land 'Rescue' Hopes Unmet
Farmers Struggle on Expropriated Plots
(Chavez fails!)
Houston Chronicle & Washington Post ^
| 06/21/2009
| Juan Forero
Posted on 06/21/2009 5:08:42 AM PDT by cbkaty
Chávez's so-called back-to-the-land movement calls for the redistribution of land -- increasingly properties that the state has taken over in what officials term a "rescue" or "recuperation." The objective is to ensure "food sovereignty," thereby reducing dependence on imports.
But nearly five years after the measures were implemented nationwide, farmers and agriculture experts say, Venezuela is not only far from self-sufficient in food, but also more dependent than ever on foreign countries. Food imports rose to $7.5 billion last year, a sixfold increase since Chávez took power a decade ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavez; landredistribution; socialism
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Redistribution of land.....will this become Obama's next step?
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:08:42 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
To: cbkaty
I guess that would be “Zimbabwe, phase 2.” Once the currency is destroyed, and city folk can’t buy food, they will be given land to grow their own. I seem to remember that Rhodesia was the largest food-exporter in Africa before “land reform” took the productive land from white landowners to give it to people who had no clue how to raise anything. Now they can’t even feed themselves....
hh
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:13:36 AM PDT
by
hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: cbkaty
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:16:54 AM PDT
by
RU88
(Bow to no man)
To: hoosier hick
I seem to remember that Rhodesia was the largest food-exporter in Africa before land reformAbsolutely....I have friends that fled Zimbabwe with nothing...they had owned one of the most successful computer companies in the country....lost it all.
I carry a 10,000,000,000,000 dollar Zimbabwe note in my wallet to remind me of the power of the gubmint printing press.....
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:18:24 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: cbkaty
-—he may try confiscating it, but he’ll sure have no luck transplanting the welfare class onto a few acres to try and survive as subsistence farmers as Chavez has—
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:18:26 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: RU88
"That is socialism," she said. "It did not work before, and it does not work now."
---Felicia Escobar, Lawyer and consultant that used to work for the Agriculture Ministry
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:25:42 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: hoosier hick
I guess that would be Zimbabwe, phase 2. Once the currency is destroyed, and city folk cant buy food, they will be given land to grow their own. I seem to remember that Rhodesia was the largest food-exporter in Africa before land reform took the productive land from white landowners to give it to people who had no clue how to raise anything. Now they cant even feed themselves....I guess all news stories from Africa are banned in Ven. They didn't learn anything from that return to tribal farming.
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:26:07 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: rellimpank
That’s a lot more work than having your local community organizer sign you up for government benefits...
hh
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:28:24 AM PDT
by
hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: raybbr
I guess all news stories from Africa are banned in Ven. We get them here, yet our leaders still run towards socialism....like flies to a bug-zapper....
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:29:40 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: cbkaty
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:31:59 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: hoosier hick
—at least, however, life as subsistence farmers would cure the number one health problem of the “poor” in the US—it would wipe out obesity—
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:32:12 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: raybbr
Youre in Venezuela?No, sorry did not make that clear,...Texas..... I have friends in Venezuela.
Still my point is we get this info on the failure of socialism...but continue to move toward the grand failure.
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:37:25 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: cbkaty
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:38:58 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: rellimpank
-he may try confiscating it, but hell sure have no luck transplanting the welfare class onto a few acres to try and survive as subsistence farmers as Chavez has No matter how hard ya try, ya can't get crops by planting food stamps.
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:45:41 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
To: Roccus
No matter how hard ya try, ya can't get crops by planting food stamps. Now that's good...you made my morning...have a cup on me!
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:48:51 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: cbkaty
"land is not yours. The land is not private. It is the property of the state," Chávez said" Herein lies the Achilles heel of Socialism. People don't work for long to improve something owned by someone else.
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:49:16 AM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
To: norwaypinesavage
"land is not yours. The land is not private. It is the property of the state," Chávez said""GM investment bonds are not yours. The bonds are not private. It is the property of the state or the union," The Obama administration said"
--------NOT AN ACTUAL QUOTE...but close!
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posted on
06/21/2009 5:58:11 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: cbkaty
Redistribution of land or redistribution of wealth, same result.
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posted on
06/21/2009 6:11:02 AM PDT
by
Need4Truth
(Washington DC is a foreign entity.)
To: raybbr
It is either a question of them not learning from the evidence before their eyes or being willfully indifferent to the consequences of their ideology. Just a few days ago Chavez exhorted Obama to take America into socialism. Such advice coming from someone leading his own country into penury to a leader of the richest country on earth, is a presumption which can only come out of ideology.
There can be no doubt that Obama knows that these confiscations do not work yet he has committed the same sins here himself and now, by nationalizing healthcare, he is reaching out to control every seventh dollar spent in the American economy . The rest he will control through cap and trade if he can.
I cannot but believe that the human consequences of these actions are a matter of indifference to both men.
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posted on
06/21/2009 6:21:51 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: RU88
40 acres and a mule.”
You will be punishing the mule.
Not one person in 800 in America knows how to take care of a mule.
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