Monday, February 18, 2008
Chavez threatens to seize control of businesses that are caught hoarding products
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to seize control of businesses that are caught hoarding products and set his sights on Empresas Polar -- the nation's largest food producer and distributor. If officials discover that firms sit on goods for months to later sell them at inflated prices, they 'should be seized and taken under government control,' Chavez said. He called Polar a 'clear example' of a business that could be taken over. His threats came as the country struggles with sporadic shortages of some basic foods, including sugar, cooking oil, milk, black beans, eggs and chicken.
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Jesus Christ but will you seize Polar, Chávez?? Enuff already! Pay the political price -- the people are demanding food security. Polar and the other opposition are just scum. Capitalist scum. Is this socialism in Venezuela? Or just a facsimile of it? Time to shit or get off the pot, Hugo.
ReplyDeleteThe thing I want to know right now, however, is: what do the Polar workers think about all this? Would they be amenable to turning Polar into social property without much fuss?
Do it!
If the nationalization of Polar must come, then let it, because Venezuelan society demands honesty. The very thought of a company hoarding and creating shortages in order to make a profit out of necessary food staples is a crime in itself. There is no other choice, but to seize the company.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the capitalists in Venezuela as in the U.S. never give up an opportunity to make illegal profits on the backs of the working class. So, they have called justice upon themselves. Feel no pity for these exploiters who ever they are. Because they have been the source of problems in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution.