Reading post 206143 in main thread: Venezuelan Middle Class Flees
April 4th, 2006  
Missileer
 
 

Venezuelan Middle Class Flees info


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...5/wvenez05.xml

Exerpt:
Venezuela's once-thriving middle class is packing its bags and fleeing the country, afraid for the future as the socialist president, Hugo Chávez, calls on the slum-dwelling masses to rise up and seize wealth from those better off than themselves.


Vestey gives up ranches in 'land grab'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...8/cnvest18.xml

Exerpt:
A 32,000-acre cattle ranch owned by Britain's Vestey Group is to be confiscated without compensation, Venezuelan authorities have announced.

Chavez grabs oil field to fund anti-US campaign

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../wchavez04.xml

Exerpt:
Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez yesterday seized control of a French-run oil field, strengthening his control of the country's vast oil wealth, the lifeblood of his "Bolivarian Revolution".

A Country dies and another slum is born.





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