Read this informative article from http://www.bbc.co.uk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5327330.stm

As Chavez tries to slowly re-make Venezuela into Cuba (the government announced another series of land seizures while I was visiting Venezuela last month) it would pay to take heed of this excerpt from the article:

"Every farm needs an owner," she said, "because only an owner can care for, can love the land.

"Look at most of the countryside in Cuba," she added. "It's all weeds because no one feels it is theirs."

and later, from a neighbor who is family to Fidel:

Later I spoke to a member of the Castro family.

"If only all farms here were run like that one," he said.

"Then we would have an agricultural industry."

Any of you who have visited Eastern Europe or Russia will know that this is so.