Posted on 09/17/2005 5:13:44 AM PDT by mcg2000
Edited on 09/17/2005 5:26:00 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
While Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was making a splash in New York, calling for the United Nations to be moved and blasting world leaders for avoiding action on real problems, representatives of the H.J. Heinz Co. on Thursday were meeting with officials in Venezuela to discuss a tomato-processing plant seized by authorities there earlier this month.
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#1 Teresa Heinz Kerry is not associated with any of the Heinz Inc's business deals.
#2 She married into the Heinz money ... see a common denominator with someone else?
#3 US Oil companies should be advised to take note!
This does make a good point regarding the hazards of globalization. However, given my views of globalization - i.e., that it is economic treason - I have to regard anything that discourages free traitin' as good.
Conscience free trade.
Hillary Rodham & Hugo Chavez
How about the hazards of anti-American communists? Chavez must go.
U.S. oil companies learned that lesson a long time ago in the middle east.
The one that would be very expensive would be when China decides to pull the same stunt.
Mark
The only thing Teresa squeezes now is Kerry's tomatoes, unless those were blown off in Vietnam when he was hit by rice frags.
Many of us have warned of this possibility. If Chavez keeps the plant for himself the real test, and what the Chicoms will be watching very carefully, will be this country's response. If we attempt to recover it through diplomatic means then the Chicoms will know they can get away with it. If swift economic sanctions are imposed and threats of military actions are used then the Chicoms will hesitate.
In either case the threat of many U.S. companies losing billions of dollars in assets are still alive.
If it were not our money in the end that would be lost, I would not shed a tear over any company stupid enough to invest billions on hostile soil halfway across the globe.
I heard that Heinz has hired Pat Robertson to "negotiate" a settlement.
Blackwater Security's stock just went up 3 points......
The plant has not been in operation for at least 8 years.
It never employed more than 50.
Heinz' major plant employing 700 people is unaffected.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8CF51K80.htm
From other stories, apparently Venezuela is a large per capita consumer of ketchup. In the US, salsa now outsells ketchup.
Heinz plant seized? Nine gin soaked raisins should take care of that.
W now has an excuse to invade to protect American interests.....
Next in line Procter and Gamble, Bridgestone Firestone.
representatives of the H.J. Heinz Co. on Thursday were meeting with officials in Venezuela to discuss a tomato-processing plant seized by authorities there earlier this month....Awesome!...these radicals hit the motherlode...
What harm was there is seizing it for other uses?
Equal value of Venzeula's assets should be siezed in the USA.
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