The Argentine government intends to expropriate 51 , leaving Repsol with a 6 stake.

On 23 December 2009, Chavez threatened to expropriate Toyota Motor Corp.'s local assembly plant.

That is the mechanism that reduces the incentives to expropriate the creditor, and makes debt secure and cheap.

They can commit not to expropriate creditors, since the latter will vote them out of office if they do.

For this far right fringe, gold is the only hedge against the risk posed by the government s conspiracy to expropriate private wealth.

But he had made it equally clear that he did not intend to expropriate the property of energy firms he wanted foreign investors to stay.

But customers do not trust suppliers who cut deliveries, raise prices unpredictably, expropriate competitors, and let production decrease in the way Gazprom and Russia s other state companies have done.

Abraham Lincoln s original proposal to end the immoral practice of slavery by compensating slave owners for manumission was unacceptably expensive, so the Union, according to the slave holding Confederacy, was determined to expropriate the South.

The decision to expropriate 51 of YPF, Argentina s biggest energy firm, from the Spanish company Repsol is one of those gestures. Added to its contempt for foreign creditors, and to the growing and arbitrary protectionism that violates all global and regional rules, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner s decision pushes Argentina closer to being deemed internationally as a lawless country.