Venezuela Torn in Two After Chavez Urges Squatting

Venezuela’s squatters have a friend in Hugo Chavez. Chavez has long encouraged poor Venezuelans to take over unused buildings and farms, but in January he made it official, issuing a decree authorizing those made homeless by floods to take over buildings and land. The results: a country polarized between those…

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Venezuela Torn in Two After Chavez Urges Squatting

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