Comment #4

konane — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:34:59 GMT

Thanks Sully! Really happy I wasn't born in Venezuela.

Comment #3

sully16 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:18:39 GMT

HUGO IS ANOTHER NUT JOB!

Comment #2

konane — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:16:10 GMT

Thanks TigerAngel! Wow and ewwww at the same time.

Comment #1

TigerAngel — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:57:39 GMT

I remember going to a small store in Mexico. They had lots of rotting fruits and vegetables on display still for sale! Not a pretty site.

Original Blog Entry: "Hugo Chavez Spearheads Raids as Food Prices Skyrocket

konane — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:59:38 GMT

All dictators' promises sound hunky-dory until they're implemented in the real world.

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Hugo Chavez Spearheads Raids as Food PricesSkyrocket

Published: Friday,18 Jun 2010 | 5:18 PM ETSource CNBC

Mountains of rotting food foundat a government warehouse, soaring prices and soldiers raiding wholesalersaccused of hoarding: Food supply is the latest battle in President Hugo Chavez'ssocialist revolution.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says government-led raids offood markets will reverse exploitation of the poor, whom he needs for politicalsupport.

Venezuelan army soldiers swept through the workingclass, pro-Chavez neighborhood of Catia in Caracas last week, seizing 120 tonsof rice along with coffee and powdered milk that officials said was to be soldabove regulated prices.

The battle for food is a matterof national security, said a red-shirted official from the Food Ministry,resting his arm on a pallet laden with bags of coffee.

It is also the latest issue todivide the Latin American country where Chavez has nationalized a wideswathe of the economy, he says to reverse years ofexploitation of the poor.

Chavez supporters are grateful fora network of cheap state-run supermarkets and they say the raids will slowmassive inflation.

Critics accuse him of steering thecountry toward a communist dictatorship and say he is destroying the privatesector.

They point to 80,000 tons ofrotting food found in warehouses belonging to the government as evidence thestate is a poor and corrupt administrator. .....

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37786852

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