[cmsgop]

Obama will seize Safeway in return.......

[Richard Kimball]

Okay, so he’s run out of other people’s money. What happens when he runs out of other people’s food?

[rellimpank]

—when I was there in ‘81, Polar was a good beer—

[Arguendo]

Following the path of Mugabe, it appears...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

What a flaming idiot! Within three years his people will be starving.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Chavez has to do something to take away from the fact that Oil is cheap at the moment, that means steal another private company.

[MissouriConservative]

Since the price of oil dropped, Chavez needs an enemy because the money is drying up. Look for more of this in the coming months.

[G Larry]

Let’s see, he seized oil industry assets and then lost billions when he found his thugs didn’t have the talent to run them.
Is there any chance he’ll learn that his tactics don’t work, before his people toss him overboard?

Oh....no.....I’m still talking about Chavez....

[pissant]

Next he’ll be demanding cheaper frijoles...

[PGR88]

Chavez likes the symbolism of picking a fight with “American Food Giant Cargill” but Cargill’s rice business in Venezuela is a very small, marginal business for them. And Cargill very likely have not been investing or trying to grow the business either these last few years, with Chavez around.

[Aglooka]

I thought he’d seized everything already!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Yes, grab property and then demand more production.

Kind of like when Xerxes made 10,000 of him men beat a river that had not been on his map.

[Errant]

I'd suggest Mr. Chavez and Mr. Obama must have a secret wager as to who can destroy their country first.

[hope]

Beginning of a coming food shortage?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Hugo Chavez is a Marxist jerk. When is somebody going to shoot him and put him out of our misery?

[Rome2000]

This walking corpse would never have tried that with an AMERICAN in the White House.

So it has come to this, communists are openly stealing from Americans abroad, and not only is it tolerated, its hardly even reported on.

Outstanding.

[jpf]

Was Hugo asleep when the Soviet Union went out of business or what? I mean, really, the Chinese may call themselves Communist, but even they don't take that Mao crap seriously any more.

Let them eat oil!

[spyone]

I was disappointed when the USA was placid at the oil expropriation(Exxon, Chevron, etc). This has enboldened them. Communists will continue to encroach on other peoples property until they are pounded down. Will be interesting to see what happens with Citgo.

[FormerACLUmember]

The destruction of food producers and government ration books are a key Marxist technique.

This is the “Cubafication” of the once food-rich Venezuela.

[linbiao123]

This was a confidence building exercise for all those oil companies that do work in Venezuela on government IOUs.

spyone - There’s excess capacity and from the way the economy looks, there’s going to be excess capacity for a while. Still, it would be nice to have our wells ready when oil prices get back up there.