Hugo Chavez To Pull Gold Reserves Out Of US And Europe

Yes he is a real hero. What a great man and leader. As long as you don't mind having your home and land taken from you. However maybe you like equal distribution the easy way.

Chávez is carrying out what may become the largest forced land redistribution in Venezuela's history, building utopian farming villages for squatters, lavishing money on new cooperatives and sending army commando units to supervise seized estates in six states.

The violence has gone both ways in the struggle, with more than 160 peasants killed by hired gunmen in Venezuela, including several here in northwestern Yaracuy State, an epicenter of the land reform project, in recent years. Eight landowners have also been killed here.

It has deeply polarized the nation, with Chavez supporters and beneficiaries on one side and those who believe in private property rights on the other.

One such believer in property rights is Maria Paz Raga, a Caracas-based media consultant and mother of two who said she has lost two properties to squatters in six years, a one-acre plot that she inherited from her grandmother and a weekend beach condo she saved for 25 years to buy.

"My apartment on La Guaira beach was taken over by a band of criminals that now charges squatters a monthly fee so they can stay," Raga said. "My little farm in Aragua state was taken along with several other parcels by a man who fenced them all in and now keeps them under an armed guard."

Wow he's even worse than I'd heard.

Before you put Chavez down you gotta remember the United States President has the authority to arrest anyone he wants without probable cause and he can hold you indefinetly without due process. That doesn't sound like much of a democracy. Unlike Chavez the talking heads who run our country and the fed are running a ponzi scheme on its citizens and our fed chairman doesn't think gold is money even though central banks all over the world are buying gold by the tons.

Ok I live in the worst country in the word please pass me a Hugo T-Shirt.

Now I know how Hitler came to power.

In any event I don't think it will be that much problem to ship the gold south, just might be expensive. Since you have some water between both counties you might need a boat or plane.

I'm going to keep to the gold and let you all praise Hugo, he isn't worth talking about any more.

I'm not trying to say Chavez is a great guy I just thought it was a smart move on his part to move their countries gold out of the U.S. I love America I'm just not real optimistic with the direction we are going in.

What I'm trying to suggest is that it isn't possible for Chavez to have an open and free government unless he allows whatever dictates the US and it's multinational corporations please to happen there. (see Bechtel privatizing water in Bolivia including criminalizing collecting rain water -- oh ya that's illegal at my house in Colorado too. --- see also Coca Cola in Columbia, see School of the Americas) Once again I don't defend Socialism, Communism or Plutocracy only that it is possible Chavez has to have this tight grip on his country so we don't steal it.

As for your protesting Hugo taking lands or giving 'unused' lands to the poor like some evil socialist well what we have here in the Wonderland is the charitable 'eminent domain' where the Government takes your land and gives it to various business interests like the railroads. (Oh ya fat cat Warren Buffet has major investments in railroads). Once again hypocritical. They're Socialists but hey we're Fascists.

Here's a link to The Guardian article connecting the Bush administration to the coup attempt. But yes "alleged".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/200...sa.venezuela

On Hitler, since you brought him up, his rise was financed by JP Morgan, Bank of England, General Electric through AEG, Ford Motor Co (Henry Ford even received a medal from the Nazis), Standard Oil, IBM, ITT and Brown Brothers Harriman whom Granddaddy Bush worked for. BBH had it's assets seized during WWII under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

Good thing demand is down, or the price would be $3,000.

All of this gold and dictator talk is reminding me of that fun film, "Three Kings" (1999), which had to do with Saddam Hussein and stolen gold bullion.

After reading all of your replies, I can only say that Chavez is just placing his chips on better bets right now. He's picking his future war buddies.