Chavez: Troops to escort oil takeovers

The AP reports on Comrade Chavez:

President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that soldiers will accompany government officials when they take over oil projects in the Orinoco River basin next month.


Chavez has decreed that Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, will take a minimum 60 percent stake in four heavy-oil projects in the Orinoco River region and invited the six private companies operating there to stay on as minority partners.

"On May 1 we are going to take control of the oil fields," Chavez said. "I'm sure no transnational company is going to draw a shotgun, but we will go with the armed forces and the people."

Socialists like having a monopoly on guns, it makes stealing property easier.Did you like the AP title to the article? The word "escort" makes stealing property all the more justified to the liberal MSM.