expropriation

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District Judge Loretta Preska, who determined that two YPF shareholders were owed compensation for the 2012 expropriation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

In the expropriation, the Argentine state took over 51 percent of YPF, which at the time was partially controlled by the Spanish energy giant Repsol.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

But the government's expropriation plans have divided opinion in Villa Baviera, where fewer than 100 adults live.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

Its article quoted Alan Riley, an expert on global energy law at the Atlantic Council, who damned the proposal as “an expropriation document” and added, “I’ve never seen anything like it before.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

This expropriation fulfils itself through the play of laws immanent in capitalistic production itself, through the concentration of capital.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich