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  1. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    Ah yes, wonderful! It hadn't changed all that much in 20 years!
  2. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    Hello Antshrike! Were you at El Cedral with Birdquest? I called Mark van Biers on his way to the airport on Friday, precisely to find out the group's impression of Hato El Cedral. This superb ranch has always been one of Venezuela's top birding and wildlife spectacles and an internationally...
  3. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    Hato Piñero is closed to visitors with immediate effect from today. Hato El Frío remains closed. Hato El Cedral is still operating.
  4. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    I think TNC is the only one of those NGOs that still has a programme here, though WWF may continue to be active through Fudena. But what might their role be? Perhaps the most appropriate action would simply be to objectively document what is happening and make interested parties aware. Even...
  5. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    Hello lewis20126! As I mentioned below, Hatos El Cedral and Piñero are currently operating as normal. Only Hato El Frío has closed to the public. What will happen to these areas in the long term is anybody's guess. The government (and its proxies, the State Socialist Cooperatives) have issued...
  6. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    As I understand the situation, over the last year or more Hato Piñero has been in the process of being transferred into government hands. President Chavez publicly ordered the Minister of Lands / Socialist Party Leader Jaua to take over to the ranch and I believe that the Land Institute have...
  7. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    Just to up-date this a little, since several people have contacted me directly... President Chavez announced on TV last month that Hatos El Cedral and El Frio were being cultivated with new rice plantations by their respective State Cooperatives with help from Vietnamese specialists. According...
  8. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    I just heard in a meeting over the weekend that the Land Institute (INTI) has backed off from Hato Piñero. So, for the moment at least, the land will remain under the same management regime.
  9. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    Interesting Vicente! While I was away, the official decree for the expropriation of Hato El Frio was published, after a government commision returned a verdict of "suboptimal production". By law, both Hato El Cedral and Hato El Frio are now managed by "Socialist Agroecological Cooperatives"...
  10. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    I think the Venezuelan government DOES know the value of these properties - that is why they are seizing them. It is interesting that the government has not proceeded to take over any of the ranches that are not so well known.
  11. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    Hello Rasmus! The owners challenged the original legal action to take the ranch off them in 2005 and asked myself and others for a professional opinion of the move, some of which was posted on their website. However, as far as I am aware, there has been no public reaction to the January...
  12. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    Yes, much as I hate to say it, I have heard much the same of El Cedral. One of my ornithological colleagues was just at the ranch with a group and reported that the ranch was very much deteriorated and given over to political instruction rather than conservation or ecotourism. Hato El Frio...
  13. Chris Sharpe

    Venezuelan government takeover of Hato Pinero

    The Venezuelan government has an ongoing programme to take over sizeable private properties, private companies and infrastructure for "redistribution". This has affected the industrial sector (notably hydrocarbons, electricity, telecommunications, banks, cement production, steel, etc.) and...
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