Chavez to seize homes and hotels for the poor

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Venezuela president Hugo Chavez's policy of nationalising strategic private businesses has taken a new twist with his announcement that his government will expropriate hotels and holiday homes at an upmarket Caribbean resort.
The president plans to turn Los Roques, an idyllic archipelago of deserted beaches of perfect white sand with swaying palms and dazzling coral reefs, into a state-run getaway for his country's urban poor.
Speaking on national television, he said that yachts and speedboats confiscated from fugitive bankers would be used to transport holidaymakers from the mainland. "There are some houses there that were illegally built. We are going to expropriate them."
Talking by phone link rather than appearing in person – a tactic the president has increasingly used since starting chemotherapy for cancer – he added that the archipelago, a national park, had in effect been privatised by Venezuelan and foreign members of "the upper bourgeoisie".




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Chavez to seize homes and hotels for the poor on idyllic Los Roques - Americas, World - The Independent
 
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No wonder the CIA is out to kill him, imagine if that trend caught on in any Nation that holds a occupy Wall St event (for instance). People would become desperate to become poor just so they qualified for a place.
 
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:smile:Viva Chavez.............


Didn't know there were any hotels for the poor.

gonna hear bout that fer sur.e

MHz said:
No wonder the CIA is out to kill him, imagine if that trend caught on in any Nation that holds a occupy Wall St event (for instance). People would become desperate to become poor just so they qualified for a place.
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fer fuks sake.
 
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