Venezuela Expropriates Paper Company

Associated Press ^ | Jan. 19, 2005 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that he signed an order to immediately expropriate the assets of Venepal, a bankrupt paper company that halted operations last month.

Chavez met with former Venepal employees to sign the expropriation order. The workers vowed to rebuild the company with the help of the government and manufacture books and notebooks the government could use in public schools and other education-related social projects.

Chavez, a self-described "revolutionary" and critic of unbridled capitalism, said Venepal's expropriation is a step in Venezuela's new economic self-development model.

"We're at war against poverty and against misery in Venezuela," he said. "The expropriation today is an exception, it's not a government policy."

[Kitten Festival]

The theft doesn't stop - farms, urban land, urban buildings, now companies. The Thug of Caracas cannot stop stealing.

Into a whirlwind. Oh my gawd.

[sheik yerbouty]

Castro II..

[livius]

Moving right along, isn't he.

[mbraynard]

What a great strategy to attract foreign investment, eh? I hope a renewed focus of the Rice State Department will the growing tyrannies in the southern American continent.

[SolutionsOnly]

I'm wondering why the US policy towards Chavez is so apathetic. Chavez is clearly a Castro wanna-be and we seem completely indifferent about it. Seems odd.

[Tree of Liberty]

Far past time for some wet-work to be done here.

[Texas_Jarhead]

""The expropriation today is an exception, it's not a government policy.""

typical leftist liar

[Kitten Festival]

Condi kicked his butt last night and today too.

There will be changes ahead.

He'll soon be sharing a cell with Noriega.

[Kitten Festival]

Totally agree. They do that every time, each lie more ridiculous than the last. They expect us to believe that merd. Well, we won't.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I'm wondering why the US policy towards Chavez is so apathetic. Chavez is clearly a Castro wanna-be and we seem completely indifferent about it. Seems odd.

Oil?

[ken21]

don't buy gasoline at citgo.

citgo's owned by venezuela.

[oldtimer]

We cannot conceive what has happened in South Africa to white landowners, as well as in nearby Countries.

[MisterRepublican]

How long before the pogroms begin?

[Brilliant]

What's the choice?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Last year, there was a brief report by an outgoing Rhodesian who left his great grandfather's farm and got his family out to Australia. No doubt the former employees are now hungry but no crop has been planted or even planned.

[Arnold Zephel]

One word..."Assassination". Take the bastard out. He is a thieving thug and despot, hardly worth the bullet it would take to send him to hell where he belongs.

Of course we shouldn't do it directly or the DemocRATS/Socialists/Marxists in this country would have a new rallying cry besides Pinochet and Iran-Contra.

We should take a cue from the the leftist and find someone within his own circle who will betray him. Neat, clean, and efficient.

[Kitten Festival]

Respectfully, I don't agree with this. Citgo is an American company that is getting robbed and drained of assets by Chavez's oil thugs. It's got good people in it but it's owned by a scumbag. Mismanagement there is atrocious so chavez doesn't make that much money off it. I am ok not boycotting this, I think it's ok to buy Venezuelan oil.

I want to see Chavez yanked out of his spiderhole and stuffed in a block with his new cellate, Manuel Noriega. Oil or no oil.

[Kitten Festival]

I say let's 'make the Democrats scream.'

I like it when they get mad at us and we laugh up our sleeves at them. They are a spent dead political force and all their screeching is nothing more than the howling of the wounded dying beast.

[Arnold Zephel]

I say let's 'make the Democrats scream.' I like it when they get mad at us and we laugh up our sleeves at them. They are a spent dead political force and all their screeching is nothing more than the howling of the wounded dying beast.

Ordinarily I would agree with you, but thanks to our esteemed ex-President Jimmah "Bolshevik" Carter, Chavez has been legitimized. I find it simply amazing that Carter found fault in the election results is Florida in 2000, but had no qualms putting his stamp of approval on Chavez's theft of the Venezuelan referendum. I mean a 40 point swing in the exit polls to the actually results, how amateurish.

Chavez could have made it more believable with a 21 or 22 point gap, which would still be glaringly obvious theft, but at least would have shown some humility. But alas, like all narcissistic despots he couldn't resist elevating himself.

[Brilliant]

Our political system will not tolerate it. The Venezuelans are going to have to do this themselves. Personally, I think Chavez is "Castro light". Castro's been around for almost 50 years. I'd give Chavez just a few more.