A member of the Country Club plays golf as his caddy stands by in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006. The city mayor's office has decreed the expropriation of all three major golf courses in Caracas under eminent domain. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)By FABIOLA SANCHEZ, Associated Press Writer
Tue Aug 29, 9:51 PM ET
[Editor's note: Oh boy, I can't wait to see the Caracas elite protesting this one in their golfing attire. That'll do wonders for the image of the Venezuelan opposition.]
CARACAS, Venezuela - Three major Caracas golf courses, long favored by the city's wealthy, are being expropriated to build housing for thousands of poor and middle class Venezuelans, officials said Tuesday.
The city expropriations, which will likely generate new friction between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chavez, are part of an ambitious government effort to provide more homes amid an acute housing shortage that has driven up real estate prices.
Mayor Juan Barreto's office has ordered the "forced acquisition" of two golf courses and will soon issue another decree expropriating a third course in the ritzy hills of southern Caracas, city attorney Juan Manuel Vadell told The Associated Press.
Vadell said the golf courses' owners have 30 days to appear before the mayor's office, starting a negotiation period in which a commission will eventually decide on fair compensation for the courses...
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9 comments:
It is interesting you menntion that you cannot wait to see the oppo crying for this, but on the contray, the interesting comment of this news if how the rest of the chavismo has reacted. They seem more annoyed than anybody with this news and with Juan Barreto trying to be more like Chavez than the real one.
http://www.eluniversal.com/2006/08/30/pol_ava_30A772569.shtml
I won't like to see the military making fun of your dad's acres of land in Big Sur this way, you know?
In the meantime crazy Hugo plans to dig a grave of he good'ol US of A with his new buddy Aschar from Syria...
http://www.eluniversal.com/2006/08/30/pol_ava_30A772545.shtml
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"In the meantime crazy Hugo plans to dig a grave of he good'ol US of A with his new buddy Aschar from Syria..."
Hugo doesn't plan on digging anyone's grave, Feathers. He just doesn't want imperialists digging the graves of Latin Americans, Arabs, Asians or Africans any more. I'm sorry that you can't understand that.
C'mon Justin, don't undestimate the words of crazy Hugo.
Don't you think he sticks his nose too much in other countries internal affairs to criticize the US?
I made a mistake in my other comment. It's not Aschar but Assad... just in case some erudite would pop in...
Is "Feathers McGraw" a pseudonym for Alexander Boyd? Speaking of annoying bloggers who don't seem to have any regular employment, there's Walter Skold who is a one-man anti-Castro operation called FREADOM, and another man who posts endlessly on Haiti lists. Is there a pattern here?
Diana,
1) I work at home so I have plenty of time to blog, and I do blog more than I should actually.
2) I like to come to Justin's place and comment the news, and yes, I can be very annoying.
3) I am not Alek Boyd.
4) Personal attacks won't get you to far with me. What are you, 15? It only shows that you don't have anything else to say.
5) I though I was having a conversation with Justin, that's why I came many times yesterday to follow up. I didn't know that in your intolerant facist world that is a no-no.
6) I don't know about patterns, maybe those other bloggers like to come and follow up news they are interested into?
Hi Diana,
I'm pretty sure that Feathers isn't Boyd. She's just conservative and occasionally vents against chavismo here.
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