Golf Clubs: Not for Leisure Time Anymore

On NPR this morning, Jens Erik Gould reported that the mayor of Caracas, Venezuela is considering using land currently occupied by golf courses/private clubs into housing for the poor. You can hear the whole story here. It caught my attention as part of the increasing left-focused governments of Latin America. It also caught my attention because it was the opposite of the "Golf Wars" in Mexico in the late 1990s when water for public consumption was directed--during a drought--to private golf clubs for watering the lawn. As Lopez Obrador launched his parallel government in Mexico this weekend, "south of the border," you have to notice the radical shift to the left, and probably for the better. At least Latin American and South American news is a little more hopeful than here in the U.S...