VENEZUELA is planning on starting its land reforms - basically nationalize all the productive farms untill they look like Zimbabwae.

http://www.eluniversal.com/2005/01/05/en_pol_art_05A520755.shtml

""El Charcote," a cattle ranch owned by the British Vestey Group, is to be seized on Saturday "with state machinery, to settle a first group of men participating in the Mission Land and Mission Free Men," said Alexis Ortiz, solicitor general of rich farmland Cojedes State."

No wonder the indymedia people were so strongly behind this fellow.