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Zorro

(15,747 posts) Sat Feb 7, 2015, 02:28 PM Feb 2015

Venezuela to incorporate occupied grocery into state system

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday announced that an occupied supermarket chain officials accuse of hoarding products will be folded into the state food distribution system.

Maduro said the 35 locations of the Dia a Dia grocery chain will be assimilated into the state grocery agency starting this weekend. He did not say if the change would be permanent, and stopped short of calling it an expropriation.

He accused the chain of "carrying out a war against the people," referring to the government's assertion that right-wing business owners are purposely making shopping a nightmare by hoarding goods to cause the shortages and long lineups that are plaguing Venezuela.

Soldiers had occupied the Dia a Dia chain earlier this week and on Friday the attorney general's office announced the continued detention of Dia a Dia's director.

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-incorporate-occupied-grocery-state-system-015606462.html

Doubling down the stupid. Yeah, that's the ticket.

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Venezuela to incorporate occupied grocery into state system (Original Post) Zorro Feb 2015 OP

The state-contolled stores have long queues outside of them as well Marksman_91 Feb 2015 #1

+1 Jake Stern Feb 2015 #4

Yeah because Yahoo news really does fair reporting on socialist countries in South America. fasttense Feb 2015 #2

Umm, this announcement was made on state media itself Marksman_91 Feb 2015 #3

Marksman_91

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1. The state-contolled stores have long queues outside of them as well

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Sat Feb 7, 2015, 02:36 PM

Feb 2015

Obviously they're trying to hide them now by having the lines go into the parking lots. So if this is a problem that even state-owned businesses are having, why should the private ones be take over as well? After all, the government is the one who controls most national production and distribution, so they certainly can't pin the blame on the private sector for the scarcity. The Nincompoop is getting VERY desperate.