Venezuela’s land grab OUR OPINION: Taking land by force no solution to inequality What a sad fraternity Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito just joined. Like Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo before him, Mr. Brito, 49, chose to starve himself to death over a question of principle. He shrank to 77 pounds and died last week rather than toe the line on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s dubious land reform program. He’s the 250th person to die in a property redistribution dispute since Mr. Chávez first launched his land-grab program nearly a decade ago. Most of the others were peasants the plan Seguir leyendo