[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[sheik yerbouty]

"Mugabe" Chavez and his Marxist ch*ngaderos..

[JesseHousman]

Too bad Margaret Thatcher isn't PM!

Weenie Tony's government will, of course, say or do nothing.

[saveliberty]

How long before Carter says anything to denounce this confiscation? (LOL! No one is holding their breath!)

[bikerman]

Maybe Chavez will accept a position with Wal-Mart they could use someone like that.

[MindBender26]

Mr. Chavez,

Does the name "Falkland Islands" ring a bell?

[Sax]

Perhaps they should have talked to the Argentinians about the prospect of claiming British land for their own?

[Travis McGee]

If ownership cannot be proved by documents dating back to 1830, the land is liable to be seized.

Our own Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican American War, dates only to 1848. If 1830 is ever going to be our standard for determining land ownership, we will have to turn over much of the Southwest to Spain, Mexico, or to the heirs of the "dispossessed" former land owners.

Needless to say, this could get a little messy...

So-called "land reform" in New Mexico, after that state government is taken over by radicals, is the subject of my next novel.

[dfwgator]

Chavez's lawyer

"Land .. land ... land - see snatch."

[Vaquero]

sounds like a Fauklands/Malvinas situation...I think we ought to help em......

[agere_contra]

It is "British owned land", meaning owned by some British legal entity in the same way you might own your house or car. It is NOT British Land, as in land under the sovereignty of HMG. This is why no taskforce is being sent.

It is Venezualan territory - and Chavez is assaying a not-entirely-novel tactic of confiscation to shore up his own political position. But the laws of the market have never been repealed: once you ignore property rights your country is doomed. Foreign investors will disengage with Venezuala and it will turn into a spanish speaking Zimbabwe.

[RichardW]

Isn't Communism wonderful? Sounds like it is time to give Chavez the Noriega treatment.

[Nowhere Man]

Well, Hugo "Mugabe" Chavez strikes again.

[OESY]

Hugo Chavez is Jimmy Carter's man in Caracas.

[OESY]

NOTABLE QUOTABLES OF HUGO CHAVEZ

By Michelle Malkin · March 20, 2005 05:43 AM

The insights of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, brought to you by the U.K. Times Online:


Chavez on....

Assassination: “If they kill me, there will be a really guilty party on this planet whose name is the President of the United States, George Bush”

Bush’s Administration: “It is a mafia, a true mafia of murderers”

Cuba: “I am the second Fidel Castro of Latin America”

Capitalism: “The Devil’s economic model . . . The capitalist exploitation model has destroyed oceans, entire oceans”

Saddam Hussein: “A brother”

Condoleezza Rice: “I cannot marry Condolencia (condolence), because I am much too busy. I have heard she dreams about me”

Gaddafi’s Libya: “A model of participatory democracy”