Reply #34: Chavez Calls for Farm Seizures, Raises Prices Amid Shortages

[ohio2007]

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Fallow farmland ``can't be allowed,'' Chavez said on his weekly television and radio broadcast, calling for the National Guard to take over farms with nonproductive lands. He also announced a price boost of 44 percent for rice growers
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It was at least the fourth time this year that Chavez's government has threatened to use expropriation to deal with shortages of milk, rice, cooking oil and other price-controlled basic foods.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aHsBIz1uemfg&refer=latin_america

time to burn out the soil so it will look like Saudi Arabia I suppose