The Peasants Speak:Chavez in a Landslide

[Dancing_Dave]

"The Peasants Speak: Chavez in a Landslide
by Greg Palast

published by GregPalast.com

The Peasants Speak: Chavez in a Landslide

There's so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. Let's begin with this: 77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the 'hacendados.'

I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I've ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, "Chavez - dic-ta-dor!" The plantation owner griped about the "socialismo" of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible.

That week, Chavez himself handed me a copy of the "socialist" manifesto that so rattled the man in the Jag. It was a new law passed by Venezuela's Congress which gave land to the landless. The Chavez law transferred only fields from the giant haciendas which had been left unused and abandoned.

This land reform, by the way, was promoted to Venezuela in the 1960s by that Lefty radical, John F. Kennedy. Venezuela's dictator of the time agreed to hand out land, but forgot to give peasants title to their property..."
http://progressivetrail.org/articles/040816Palast.shtml

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. giant haciendas which had been left unused and abandoned.

How dare these peasants feel that they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What is it that frightens the wealthy when the poor "might" just have a chance to get something for themselves and not have to "slave labor" for the large landowners? Shame on them.

[hadrons]

2. the freepers ....

Oddest demonstration I've ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, "Chavez - dic-ta-dor!" The plantation owner griped about the "socialismo" of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible.

will see nothing odd about this at all; they lick the hand that whips them and can't under why the Venezuelan peasants don't feel the same

[benfranklin1776]

3. Kick

:kick:

[camero]

4. The natural wealth of a country being owned by the people

Imagine that. Way to go Chavez. Bringing power to the people in spite of tyranny trying to bring him down.