Chávez Takes a Swing at Golf A 'bourgeois' sport? Or a forced march spoiled?

By DANIEL FREEDMAN

Scots must be shaking their heads. Fresh from nationalizing almost every capitalist enterprise that yields a profit (or used to anyway), Latin American strongman Hugo Chávez has found a new class enemy: golf. Declaring it a "bourgeois" sport, the Venezuelan leader has ordered the shut-down of some of the country's best-known golf courses.

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By aztec on Aug 18, 2009, 04:49 in Off Topic.

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