And for those of you who don't know Spanish, I'll spare you a trip to Google. This is how Google translates my post:
"arms military" and "assault rifles"... that it is the difference? They are words crossbeams, of bad people.
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10/30/2003 12:40:58 AM PST by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
Everything is going according to plan.
Chavez foes slam land grants - 'Agrarian Reform' and "Land Redistribution' in Venezuela***Under the law, the land distributed to the peasants is still owned by the state, and the government must encourage the formation of peasant cooperatives and collective farms, where the state is to provide housing, health care and education. The law also gives the government power to dictate how private land can be used, based on soil conditions and the country's food-security needs.
Critics argue that the law violates the right to private property and is a throwback to state-planned communist economies. "The model of the collective farm doesn't respond to our reality," said Roque Carmona, founder of Campesino Alliance, a nonprofit organization that helps small-scale farmers. "It looks good on paper, nothing more."
Government officials maintain that the ban on giving up ownership of state property is an attempt to avoid the failures of past land reforms in Venezuela and elsewhere, in which small farmers who lacked credit or government support eventually had to sell their plots to large landowners.
They also argue that forming peasant cooperatives is the only way campesinos can compete with large agribusinesses.
Mr. Chavez has defended the law in terms of social justice and by appealing to the need for "food security," mandated by the constitution passed in 1999 during his first year as president.***
And won't the cops here in the U.S. be surprised when the same thing happens to them, just like in Kosovo when NATO *allowed* them to carry handguns only, then they started taking casualties from *bandit* KLA muslum terrorists with AKs and RPGs. Same thing when we took over in Haiti....
Army soldiers patrol the entrance of a Metropolitan police station in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003, despite a Supreme Court order for the army to evacuate all the metropolitan police stations that they took over 11 months ago. After the government restored control of the Caracas police force to the city mayor, police claim they are outgunned by thugs and practically defenseless because all their weapons haven't been returned.(AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch) AP - Oct 28 11:36 PM
An army soldier, right, patrols the entrance of a Metropolitan police station as city police officers come and go in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003, despite a Supreme Court order for the army to evacuate all the metropolitan police stations that they took over 11 months ago. After the government restored control of the Caracas police force to the city mayor, police claim they are outgunned by thugs and practically defenseless because all their weapons haven't been returned. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
An army soldier patrols the entrance of a Metropolitan police station as a police vehicle leaves the station in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003, despite a Supreme Court order for the army to evacuate all the metropolitan police stations that they took over 11 months ago. After the government restored control of the Caracas police force to the city mayor, police claim they are outgunned by thugs and practically defenseless because all their weapons haven't been returned.(AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
AP - Oct 28 11:36 PM
