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| Subject: Blame the victims: Venezuela locks up businessmen for "conspiring" to create long queues in effort to undermine government Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:06 am | |
| Maduro accused business leaders of "conspiring" against the people and trying to undermine his socialist government. In a situation that has become reminiscent of the Soviet bloc, Venezuela's economy is suffering chronic shortages of basic goods like flour, chicken and cooking oil.
Instead of blaming tight currency controls and a shortage of US dollars, Maduro has accused a cabal of businessmen of waging an "economic war" against the government. The President told a rally of his supporters on Sunday: We came, we normalized sales, we summoned the owners, we arrested them and they're prisoners for having provoked the people. Those who use their stores to hurt the people will pay with time in prison. The chain of stores is accused of deliberately cutting the number of cashiers to create long lines. Since President Maduro came to power, the poverty rate rose from 25 per cent in 2012 to 32 per cent at the end of 2013. Venezuela won the dubious honor of being the least economically free nation in 2014, according to the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World Index. The continuing collapsing price of oil has also had a major impact on the country's finances.
http://www.cityam.com/208474/venezuela-locks-businessmen-conspiring-create-long-queues-effort-undermine-socialist _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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