What the president wants, the president gets:

President Hugo Chavez ordered construction halted on a major shopping mall in Caracas on Sunday, saying the government will expropriate the unfinished building.

The Venezuelan leader said it would be out of line with his government’s socialist vision to allow the new Sambil mall to take up precious urban real estate—and that unbridled consumerism isn’t his idea of progress either.

Anyone who still thinks socialism is about people power?