Alfredo Octavio: VenezuelaNews about my country(Untitled)- September 26, 2005 Venezuela to speed up land reform. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vows to accelerate his controversial programme of land redistribution. BBC News News Front Page UK Edition There hasn't been any "redistribution", land has been taken away, but none have been given. Who is the biggest land owner in Venezuela (both Urban and Rural) The government! And they are accumulating more and more under the excuse of redistribution. Very few people want to go to those lands, of the ones who do, none have.http://alfredo.octavio.net/categories/venezuela/2005/09/26.html#a4087 (Untitled)- September 2, 2005 Venezuela 'targets private banks'. The Venezuelan government is reported to be planning to insist that all private banks appoint two state representatives to their board.BBC News News Front Page UK Edition Is this the beginning of the end Very much related to what I was talking about not long ago. Chavez prefers a method that increases corruption (a bank only has to buy these two guys who are probably good friends anyway) to a method that either shows his ideology (all the money is mine to do.http://alfredo.octavio.net/categories/venezuela/2005/09/02.html#a4063 |