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New National Hotel in Venezuela
Posted by:
Registered Voter
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Date: October 13, 2009 07:16PM
Venezuela seizes a landmark Hilton Hotel
Oct 13 05:25 PM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.641f6a1ace6620056b73f6b56e7b6cd8.b31&show_article=1
Well, if I owned a hotel in Venezuela, I would accept no money from Chavez or his government to hold a conference there. Actually I think it would be good to refuse any conference that Chavez plans to attend if I owned property there.
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University
Oct 13 05:25 PM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.641f6a1ace6620056b73f6b56e7b6cd8.b31&show_article=1
Well, if I owned a hotel in Venezuela, I would accept no money from Chavez or his government to hold a conference there. Actually I think it would be good to refuse any conference that Chavez plans to attend if I owned property there.
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The facility, on the Caribbean resort island of Margarita in Nueva Esparta state, was targeted for state takeover less than a month after it was used to host the Africa-South America Summit.
"The acquisition by force of the real estate, furnishings, and related assets (...) of the Margarita Hilton & Suites Hotel Complex, along with the Marina owned by Inversiones Pueblamar y Desarrollos MBK, have been ordered," a presidential decree in the official register read.
The sprawling complex includes 280 rooms, 210 suites, a casino, stores, restaurants, offices and meeting areas, as well as the adjoining marina.
The assets will be held by the state tourism corporation Venetur, which reports to the Tourism Ministry, as part of an "urgent" effort to boost "the social development side of the tourism and hotel industries in Nueva Esparta state," the Gazette said.
It is not the first time Chavez's government has checked into a Hilton and stayed for good.
Caracas has already seized the Hotel Hilton in Caracas, rechristening it the Hotel Alba, a reference to the Venezuelan-led leftist regional alliance Alianza Bolivariana para las Americas (ALBA).
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If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University
Re: New National Hotel in Venezuela
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
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Date: October 14, 2009 09:10AM
This kind of shit will ultimately bankrupt that country. How people like Cindy Sheehan and Danny Glover are stupid enough to embrace a despot like this is beyond me.
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Re: New National Hotel in Venezuela
Posted by:
Hugo
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Date: October 14, 2009 12:08PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> This kind of shit will ultimately bankrupt that
> country. How people like Cindy Sheehan and Danny
> Glover are stupid enough to embrace a despot like
> this is beyond me.
You left out Harry Belafonte. All nutjobs who initially endorsed John Edwards and then Barack Obama. Who said the right had the monopoly on fringe lunatics? These asswipes are as frigged up as birthers.
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> This kind of shit will ultimately bankrupt that
> country. How people like Cindy Sheehan and Danny
> Glover are stupid enough to embrace a despot like
> this is beyond me.
You left out Harry Belafonte. All nutjobs who initially endorsed John Edwards and then Barack Obama. Who said the right had the monopoly on fringe lunatics? These asswipes are as frigged up as birthers.