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They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”

Padre Tiago has threatened to eradicate American influence and to nationalize the United Fruit Co. plantations.

Then came the collapse of the government-sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both promptly nationalized.

An early version of Jara’s platform promised to nationalize mining of lithium and copper.

In their first two decades in power, they nationalized a thousand companies that then collapsed, seized farmland across the country, bungled the oil industry into steep decline and presided over the theft of untold billions.