Chaotic, retributive land seizures in Venezuela have led to violence, injustice, and crop shortages.

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Moving towards a more enlightened treatment of bankruptcy will not be easy, particularly for poor countries with inefficient legal systems and retributive attitudes to debt.

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"AQAP is a likely candidate for retributive attacks, although attacks against the West take some time to plan and carry out and the branch faces its own organizational limitations, " said Leah Farrall, an Australian counterterrorism analyst.

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But by doing this now, in addition to the fees and all the other things that seem to be punitive or retributive in nature, you're dampening what is right now a very tenuous economic situation and growth is just beginning.

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