VENEZUELA PUTS 12,000 TONS OF FOOD IN JEOPARDY WITH MILITARY SIEGE OF NESTLE/PEPSI CENTER

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Breitbart:

The Venezuelan military has invaded and seized a food distribution center in Caracas used by national food and beer corporation Polar, as well as American companies Nestle and Pepsi. 12,000 tons of food, six million liters of soft drinks, and 2,000 jobs are now at risk in a nation suffering major food shortages and a collapsed economy.

 

Bloomberg reports that the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro is justifying the theft of the distribution center as a just “expropriation” for the construction of public housing, suspiciously close to congressional elections for a president whose popularity has taken a nosedive in the past year.

 

Expropriation is popular among the lowest class of Venezuelans, who see it often as the only way for them to acquire property. “There is an economic war here and this company, Polar, is at the heart of it. They hide products from the population, and inflate their prices!” Carmen Arreaza, a Maduro supporter, told Bloomberg.

 

Venezuelans with jobs—increasingly rare in an economy estimated to be suffering 615 percent inflation—adamantly oppose moves against national businesses, often the only suppliers of stable income. A number of Polar employees remained at the factory in protest, demanding the military let them continue their work and earn some pay. “If we don’t work, we don’t eat,” Carlos Muñoz, a truck driver for Polar, told CNBC. “There’s no food in Venezuela and now they do this! How are people going to eat?”

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