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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-04 07:32 AM
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Venezuelan opposition criticizes Chavez's land policy
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-08/31/content_1929359.htm

CARACAS, Aug. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The Venezuelan opposition coalition on Monday attacked President Hugo Chavez's land policy, accusing the government of being the protector of robbers.

The statement, by the Democratic Coordination, followed Chavez's pledge Sunday to enforce an agriculture law that allows the government to tax and expropriate idle land and give it to poor peasants as a part of his "agrarian revolution."

The opposition coalition said in a statement that "most of the owners who are not working on their lands are in such a position because they cannot do so, since in our country the government, instead of protecting our producers, protects robbers."

Chavez, who won a recall referendum on Aug. 15, ordered his military commanders to investigate large rural estates and report idle land not in productive use, but the opposition said most of the idle lands are already in government hands.

comment: And they still can quit wailing... what a bunch of losers.
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