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Chavez works to make Venezuela into Zimbabwe type basket case

Washington Times:

State governors and the rural poor are moving quickly to implement President Hugo Chavez's vision of a social revolution, carving up and redistributing large landholdings and threatening to take over the premises of internationally owned companies.
There has been none of the violence and mayhem that accompanied land seizures in Zimbabwe in recent years, but economists and angry land owners fear that -- as in Zimbabwe -- the takeovers will destroy a productive agriculture sector and undermine the economy.
In the cowboy country state of Cojedes, however, triumphant farmworkers are hailing Mr. Chavez as a hero for pushing through legislation in 2002 that has enabled them to take over pieces of the region's sprawling family-owned ranches.
"He is the man of the poor, the only one who has fought for the poor," said Carlos Julia Roja, 48, his sunburned face peering from his pickup truck across an expanse of privately owned fields. "How many peasants would be able to eat off this land?" he asked.

And he will make all of Venezuea equally poor.