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Weekly Report - 14 October 2010 (WR-10-41)
VENEZUELA: Chávez hits the accelerator
Land reform is coming to the city. Expropriation, or forced
nationalisation, of land will no longer be a purely rural phenomenon. The
government of President Hugo Chávez has sent the national assembly a bill to
expropriate private properties in cities if the plots are either not being used
(the same rationale given for taking over 'idle land' in the country for food
production) or if construction plans have stalled. These urban areas will then
provide government-subsidised housing for the poor and middle
class.
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