In Venezuela, Land 'Rescue' Hopes Unmet
• Washington PostSeveral years after President Hugo Chávez's populist government had
expropriated the property from its longtime owners and begun
distributing parcels to small farmers like him to work.
Six months after he arrived, Barrera's dream is still just a dream
-- his 37 acres are fallow, so he spends his time feeding grain to nine
scrawny pigs.