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Topic started on 14-10-2009 @ 10:24 AM by TrueAmerican

Venezuela seizes a landmark Hilton Hotel


www.breitbart.com
President Hugo Chavez has ordered the "acquisition by force" of a landmark Hilton Hotel on Venezuela's Margarita island, the government's Official Gazette announced Tuesday.

...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.
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reply posted on 14-10-2009 @ 10:39 AM by ladyinwaiting
reply to post by TrueAmerican



It will be interesting to see what the hotel owners (the Hilton's?) have to say about this.



reply posted on 14-10-2009 @ 11:00 AM by jibeho
reply to post by NovusOrdoMundi



Most hotels/motels are franchise owned. The big companies like Hilton and Marriott etc make more money on the franchises and management contracts.

Not sure if this is the case here. If I owned this franchise I would be pissed at Chavez.

Kind of reminds me of our American Govts. ownership of GM and Chrysler.

"At this time, Hilton Worldwide is evaluating how the Venezuelan government's action affects its interest in this hotel," said Karla Visconti, a Hilton Worldwide spokeswoman for the Caribbean, Mexico, and Latin America.

In a brief statement Visconti said the hotel "remains a member of the Hilton system of hotels, and welcomes guests with the same level of service they have come to enjoy


www.google.com...

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reply posted on 14-10-2009 @ 12:08 PM by mattpryor
reply to post by lpowell0627



You're right, you have made a valid analogy. Except of course the banks and auto industries asked the government for help - or did they?

And I don't suppose the US government will be any more successful in running banks than Chavez will be at running hotels.


reply posted on 14-10-2009 @ 12:23 PM by lpowell0627
reply to post by mattpryor



There is a huge difference between asking for a loan and asking to be taken over. Ousting a CEO, inserting your own cherry-picked CEO, and hiring a czar to monitor everything automotive, in my opinion is a takeover. Especially since the czar reports directly to the President.

That being said, Chavez, despite all outward appearances of failure thus far, continues to push ahead and grow his empire via outright control. My guess is that the people of Venezuela aren't hearing the 'real' numbers -- hence why he took over the media so quickly.



reply posted on 14-10-2009 @ 12:56 PM by ProtoplasmicTraveler
The truth is that the best way to curb the Globalist Elite’s take over of the world and a New World Order is to prohibit the Globalists from profiting, owning, controlling and running things on a Global Scale.

The smart first move is to do what Chavez is doing, confiscate their assets and kick them out of the country.

Very often the Globalists set up their businesses using graft, bribery, blackmail, and other coercive tactics and very often they out and out steal local resources to set up their businesses or use illegitimate and underhanded tactics to get ‘sweetheart’ deals on resources and labor and invest little of the money they make locally, locally.

America has become a prime example of this as our leading corporations profit off of being headquartered here and being able to market and sell goods and services here but don’t invest in living wage jobs or the community here.

The illegal monopolies set up through endless spider webs of Corporate umbrellas to avoid anti-trust laws not only control far to much of the American economy and its vital resources but control far to much of the world’s economy and it’s resources in individual nation after individual nation like Venezuela.

This is a great way to stop their take over of the world and start rolling back the globalist’s power.

I would whole heartedly support such actions especially if once Nation’s confiscated these Globalist’s assets they then made it possible for local, small private businesses, and investors to take them over from the governments and run them locally and invest the profits then locally.


[edit on 14/10/09 by ProtoplasmicTraveler]


reply posted on 14-10-2009 @ 01:02 PM by marg6043
reply to post by lpowell0627



My friend you just took words out of my mouth, in America people are so uniformed of how our government does its business that they have no clue we do the same thing and is call globalist and capitalism.

In America the government takes money from the people and give it away to corporations and banksters so they can pay themselves outrageous bonuses.

In America the tax payer builds roads and the states and federal government sells them to foreign investors that then charge us for using them, while reaping 100% of profits.

Ignorance is a bliss . . .


reply posted on 14-10-2009 @ 01:07 PM by marg6043
reply to post by kozmo



Isn't that interesting when the land of the free and capitalism can not longer be differentiated from what we have learn to hate as socialism and dictatorship nations?

In America we used different names to do the same crap because it sounds better in the ears of the trusting masses.





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