The meaning of expropriation is to steal something from a company generally foreign for the sake of the people. Populist measure carried out by Governments weak who think more in out-of-pocket to the citizens that they govern. A clear and topical example is the expropriation just made by argentina in the hands of CRP with YPF, subsidiary of the Spanish Repsol.
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