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2009-03-01 Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez nationalises rice processing
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Posted by tipper 2009-03-01 00:09|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 This ought to work about as well as Mugabe's policies in Zimbabwe. From exporter to importer... /s
Posted by tipover 2009-03-01 02:51||   2009-03-01 02:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Ruh oh... didn't see this one. I figured it would be Polar.

Huggy burnt thru about 2 billion during the election.... I fear dollar reserves getting kinda low. PDvSA contractors being slow paid.
Posted by .5MT 2009-03-01 06:31|| www.ninme.com]">[www.ninme.com]  2009-03-01 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe he plans to print the currency on rice paper so when it becomes worthless you can still eat it!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-03-01 07:41||   2009-03-01 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 ditto with tipover's comment. Hoogo will take a working system, grind it into failure, and be a huge rice importer in a year or two. At least his supporters will have his delicious bolivarian revolution to fill their empty stomachs
Posted by Frank G 2009-03-01 08:09||   2009-03-01 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Everyone (who hasn't left the country) is equally starving*!

*May not apply to those who have the difficult and strenuous job of more and more fixing of the economy!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-03-01 08:12||   2009-03-01 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Hoogo will take a working system, grind it into failure, and be a huge rice importer in a year or two.

Good thing he's embracing the Chinese then, I suppose.
Posted by lotp 2009-03-01 08:20||   2009-03-01 08:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Take THAT *#+#! Cargill, you evil, greedy off$hore American company. Barry wills it!
Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-01 08:27||   2009-03-01 08:27|| Front Page Top

#8 At least his supporters will have his delicious bolivarian revolution to fill their empty stomachs

And Bolivian coco leafs to chew to keep the mind off the hunger.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-01 09:20||   2009-03-01 09:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, it worked so well for Chairman Mao...Venezuela really needs to take a great leap forward into the future...
Posted by gromky 2009-03-01 09:43||   2009-03-01 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 What's Spanish for Kulak?

I assume thatany farmer that protests will be sent to the Venezuela equivalent of Siberia; or just shot.
Posted by AlanC 2009-03-01 10:41||   2009-03-01 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 I see a 5-year plan for rice production in the making. Hilarity and starvation ensues
Posted by Frank G 2009-03-01 10:52||   2009-03-01 10:52|| Front Page Top

#12 What's Spanish for Kulak?

'peasant' ...
Posted by Steve White 2009-03-01 10:57||   2009-03-01 10:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Uncle Ben could not be reached for comment.
Posted by no mo uro 2009-03-01 12:06||   2009-03-01 12:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Q: What's the difference between the Chavez and the Obama administrations?
A: A ten year head start.
Posted by DMFD 2009-03-01 12:50||   2009-03-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

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