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2006-05-17 Caribbean-Latin America

Bolivia unveils plan to distribute land to poor

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Posted by Steve White 2006-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Pa! It's them danged Agrarian Reformers agin..."

Posted by Unomosing Glavirong1295 2006-05-17 00:13|| 2006-05-17 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 The only place it worked was when the US made the ROC do land reform in the early 1950s. Its one of the key reasons Taiwan is successful and stable today.

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-17 01:15|| 2006-05-17 01:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The Zim Bob model, very impressive.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-17 08:49|| 2006-05-17 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Excellent idea! Don't forget the seeds, fertilizer, implements, know-how,...

Posted by Farmin B. Hard">Farmin B. Hard 2006-05-17 08:57|| 2006-05-17 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Fools got it all wrong. First you import Rhodesian farmers, let them make successful enterprises, the seize the farms and assets.

Posted by ed 2006-05-17 09:02|| 2006-05-17 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Right ed, and make sure you mix in a heaping helpin onf rape and murder like the Zimbies did.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-17 09:10|| 2006-05-17 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Full steam ahead, and Bolivia will soon replace Haiti as the poorest hellhole in the Western Hemisphere!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-05-17 09:22|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-05-17 09:22|| Front Page Top

#8 hopefully he's gone to school over this issue and studied the famously unsuccessful Zimbabwe example.

Posted by bk 2006-05-17 09:50|| 2006-05-17 09:50|| Front Page Top

#9 in·sane
adj.
1.
a. Of, exhibiting, or afflicted with insanity.
b. Characteristic of or associated with persons afflicted with insanity: an insane laugh; insane babbling.
c. Intended for use by such persons: an insane asylum.
2. Immoderate; wild: insane jealousy.
3. Very foolish; absurd: giving land to people that don't know how to work it

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-17 09:59|| 2006-05-17 09:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Every Bolivian gets a Donkey and 40 acres of oil field.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-05-17 11:43|| 2006-05-17 11:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh, muchos gracias, Evo!

Posted by Farmino B. Hardo 2006-05-17 11:47|| 2006-05-17 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 "productive farmland" = owned by Morales' friends.

Posted by James">James 2006-05-17 11:58|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-05-17 11:58|| Front Page Top

#13 "As long as the land fulfills its economic and social function, the state will respect it. But if it doesn't fulfill that role, the state will act with the necessary force," Vice President Alvaro Garcia said.

This is rather more blatant and openly tyrannical, but fundamentally not much different from the Kelo decision IMO.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-05-17 17:23|| 2006-05-17 17:23|| Front Page Top

#14 And what's more unproductive than a cattle rannch or a soy plantation?

Well if you are Morales ANY LAND NOT PRODOCUING COCA is UNPRODUCTIVE!

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-17 20:06|| 2006-05-17 20:06|| Front Page Top

#15 It ain't worked the last 50,000 times it's been tried.

Let's do it again!

Idiots.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-17 23:29|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-05-17 23:29|| Front Page Top

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