Chavez Starts Taking Land

Christian Science Monitor has a decent report on land expropriation in Venezuela. Chavez is taking from the rich and giving to the poor of course, but it makes little sense in this day and age. An economist from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs compares Chavez program's to Lincoln's during the Civil War. The biggest difference of course is that the US was 70-80% rural at the time and 21st century Venezuela is not even close.