He calls for the "nationalisation" of "strategic" sectors, though he is cagey about precisely what this means (not expropriation, he says) or whether it applies to mining.
That means removing the non-Indian population of several villages and a small town the number of people is disputed plus several large rice plantations, Mr Quartiero's among them.To its advocates Raposa/Serra do Sol is restoration, not expropriation.
Officials said this would not involve expropriation, but landowners expressed concern.
In Brazil and Spain, home to the two biggest investors in Bolivian gas, he declared that nationalisation did not mean expropriation and promised security of contracts.
In 2005, the ministry proposed to stiffen the guidelines for classifying land as productive (and therefore not subject to expropriation).
Breaking with the doctrine would not reverse the expropriation of indigenous lands but it would, the commission thinks, help aboriginal people come to terms with it.
"These Russian tycoons and oligarchs are looking to place their money in jurisdictions with more rule of law, and where they are not subject to expropriation by the state".
The tribunal said it might have reached a different conclusion had the "spoils of expropriation" not been awarded mostly to ZANU-PF people.Didymus Mutasa, the minister then responsible for distributing the land, retorted that the judges must be "day-dreaming" if they thought Zimbabwe, a signatory to the SADC court, would heed the ruling.
Although the proposals provide that compulsory licensing does not constitute an expropriation where such a licence is granted "in accordance with the TRIPS Agreement", this still leaves room for investor corporations to challenge the compulsory licence using the ISDS on the grounds that it does not comply with TRIPS.
This is tantamount to the symbolic, if not de facto, expropriation of their pastoral land as over 75% of the island's surface is under the IUCN strict protection category (national park and nature reserve) in which humans are considered an invasive species!
Italian courts mulled those issues years ago and brought no charges, and the Getty's Clark says that, in any case, the proper penalties would have been fines, not seizure and expropriation of a statue to which Italy has no valid claim.
