[hedgetrimmer]

Didn't Chavez just return from a trip to China where there was a mutual pledge of eternal admiration? Isn't China looking to South America, not only for oil, but for arable land to feed its people? Couldn't this appropriation of idle lands be in part to make land available to China farm cooperatives to set up shop in Venezuela?

Just wondering....

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Not sure about the Chinese interest in in the farms but China is going to be looking to export millions of excess Chinese men to other countries so that they can find wives and cement Chinese influence.