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SAN FELIPE, Venezuela -- Vicente Lecuna jabs a wall map of his Santa
Isabel ranch so angrily that the map crashes to the floor. "I used to
produce 10,000 tons of sugar cane a year," says the 67-year-old
Venezuelan cattleman. "Now it's zero! Zero!" he shouts.
Two years ago, squatters seized about half of Mr. Lecuna's 3,000-acre
ranch, setting up a cooperative named "Re-Founding the Fatherland." Far
from being evicted, the squatters got loans and tractors from the
government of President Hugo Chávez. They then uprooted the
sugar cane and decided to try their hand at growing plantains.
"We are building socialism and fighting capitalism!" says co-op leader
Juan Nava, standing amid wooden shacks on what used to be Mr. Lecuna's
land. The rancher's efforts to fight the takeover in court have gone
nowhere. *SNIP*
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The second I saw this W$J piece I thought "Robert Mugabe." Googled
to see if the two were asshole buddies, and Voila! I PhotoShopped
Joe Kennedy into the rollover above because I thought he belongs there,
him being a Chavez enabler and all. His Grandpa liked Hitler. By
the way, that Venezuelan flag in the picture was not added, as the
clickable picture link will show.
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