Venezuelan National Guard soldiers take position on the British-owned El Charcote ranch in el Charcote, Venezuela, in this Jan. 8, 2005 file photo. Agropecuaria Flora, owned by British Vestey Group Ltd., agreed on March 22, 2006 to cede nearly 56,000 hectares (138,000 acres) of its cattle-ranching property to the Venezuelan government, which claimed the assets under President Hugo Chavez's land reform program. (AP photo/Fernando Llano, FILE)