The New Socialist Gulag Opens For Business

The mayor of Caracas, Venezuela who just happens to be from Hugo Chavez's political party has ordered the confiscation of two golf courses. He says they'll be nice sites for low-income housing. The courses happen to be in districts where members of opposition parties hold elected office.

Mayor Juan Barreto's decision to expropriate the Country Club and Valle Arriba golf courses, located in wealthy neighborhoods in the capital, was published in the official city gazette Tuesday.

Last week Barreto said the golf courses were be suitable for new residential complexes for average Venezuelans.

Both are located in municipal districts led by politicians of parties in opposition to Barreto's Movimiento Quinta Republica, the party of leftist-populist President Hugo Chavez.

Chavez is following closely in the footsteps of his hero, Fidel.