[SpaceBar]

Didn't Saloth Sar try this?

[MisterRepublican]

Jimmy Carter-Castro must be so proud.

[2banana]

Hunger and starvation is a'coming

[george wythe]

It seems that the government strategy is to question the private ownership of farms by asking the owners to jump through unreasonable hoops:

Under the law, private farms may also be seized if owners do not use the land sufficiently for agriculture or if they fail to prove they obtained the property legally.

Of course, foreign owned farms will be the first targets:

A 32,000-acre ranch owned by a British cattle company is among those considered "partly idle" and its property titles are not in order, Otaiza said Tuesday. The El Charcote ranch sits on land previously owned by the government and the British Vestey Group has failed to prove it legally acquired the land, Otaiza added.

The government could expropriate part of the land and impose a production plan on Agroflora, the Vestey subsidiary that operates the ranch.

Agroflora has been fighting to oust more than 600 squatters who have now taken over roughly 90 percent of the ranch's land, according to Alejandro Arcay, the company's lawyer.

[Brilliant]

I'm betting that the American liberals are watching with keen interest. They're thinking, "Could we get away with something like that?"

[Cicero]

The longer Chavez rules, the more suffering there will be. He should have been chopped off at the knees a couple of years ago.

[Banach-Tarski]

Wow...this sounds suspiciously like 'nationalization' of property (actually, thats precisely what it is.) I think we all know what that leads to...

[headsonpikes]

It is time for the Terror phase of Party power consolidation.

The Genocide will follow in due course.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Why all the complaining?

It worked great in Zimbabwe didn't it?

[KC_Conspirator]

Vice president Jose Vicente Rangel has said farmers and ranchers with their titles in order and their lands productive have "nothing to fear."

This is the same lie that Castro said. Death is sure to follow.

[drt1]

Hmm... Where are the environmentalists? They are always interested in reserving land out of productive use so that it is pristine and idle. You would think they would be all over this blatant attempt to degrade the environment by demanding that land not be idle. /mega sarcasm

[ken21]

maybe they'll unload the city people out into the countryside, as the cambodians did under pol pot.

[1066AD]

Guess he took lessons from Mugabe but failed to notice the effects on food production later on.
I wonder how long it'ss be before Citgo pumps go dry here.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Are your papers in order?!

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