Venezuela's Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Banks

dailynews.yahoo.com ^ | December 16, 2001 | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER, AP

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The poor will only suffer more. Communizm doesn't work.

That's the truth.
And you're right, the money, capital and investments are drying up.
The people are leaving in droves. I don't blame them. Look at what happened in Cuba.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Good grief.

If Clinton had nationalized U.S. hotels......there's a joke there somewhere =^)!

[aculeus]

More dangerous than Castro ... because of the oil.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

More dangerous than Castro ... because of the oil.

BIG time!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Cuba also has "neighborhood watch" Cuba Wages Offensive on 'Over-Sized' Houses -- ``The day money is the factor behind distribution of the nation's properties is the day we will be divided into social classes. We will not allow that,'' said Juan Contino, who heads the movement of Cuba's state-affiliated neighborhood groups, the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR). [End Excerpt]

Drip, drip, drip……Venezuela follows the same path--Last month, for example, Chávez announced a plan to form "Bolivarian circles," neighborhood clubs that would instill the principles of the 19th-century hero such as moral character, love of country, and solidarity. That plan immediately stoked fears that Chávez, feeling besieged, really wants a network similar to Cuba's Revolutionary Defense Committees.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!