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Two Supermarket Executives Charged With Hoarding in Venezuela | venezuelanalysis.com - 0 views

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  • Two managers of the private supermarket chain Dia Dia were formally charged by the Venezuelan state prosecutor yesterday with the alleged crimes of boycott and destabilization of the economy. Manuel Andrés Morales Ordosgoitti and Tadeo Arriechi Franco were arrested at the beginning of February after state authorities uncovered ton loads of basic items in a Dia Dia warehouse in Caracas. The indictments are part of a ramped up effort on the part of the Venezuelan government to crack down on hoarding and speculation by large private retailers, which is a primary contributing factor to inflation and widespread scarcities of basic goods.
  • The Bolivarian government has regulated the prices of everyday goods for years, in order to ensure access by the majority of Venezuelans for whom they were unaffordable under previous administrations. Nonetheless, the government has accused the private sector of exploiting this policy by hoarding cheap subsidized goods, creating consumer gaps, then selling them at exorbitant prices on the black market in what President Maduro has termed an “economic war” waged to destabilize the socialist government. Last month, board members of the private firms Dia Dia and Carnica 2005 were arrested for their companies’ role in a massive hoarding operation.
  • Carnica 2005 was nationalized and integrated into the state food distribution network PDVAL. Dia Dia operates 35 supermarkets throughout Venezuela, which are largely found in low-income communities.
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  • On Monday, Venezuelan Vice-President Jorge Arreaza inaugurated the first of the nation’s “people’s military commands” in Lara state, which will be charged with “generating a victory in the economic war.” Last month, President Nicolas Maduro unveiled his plan for the creation of “peoples’ military commands” throughout the nation designed to combat “economic sabotage” at the local level by ensuring the supply of basic food and hygiene products as well as medicines. “The men and women who form these commands have the responsibility of attending to the denunciations of the people and safeguarding their access to food, medicine, and all necessary products,” declared the vice-president.
  • The people’s commands will reportedly operate in coordination with social movements, communal councils and communes, and state security organs, although details remain limited as the project is gets off the ground. 
  • Paul Merrell on 25 Mar 15
     
    It's a big problem in Venezuela. The government subsidizes the purchase of consumer goods so that they can be priced lower for those with low incomes. But the right-wing "capitalists" aligned with U.S. covert agencies hoard the goods, creating artificial market shortages, then sell the goods on the black market at inflated prices. The current response by the government is criiminal prosecutions coupled with nationalization of businesses that don't hear the message. I suspect that the government may be forced at some point to drop the subsidies and begin writing welfare checks to low income citizens instead. The Bolivarian government is absolutely committed to ending poverty in Venezuela. Of course this smells too much of socialism for U.S. government tastes, which has been attempting to overthrow the Bolivarian government ever since it nationalized the oil industry. 
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Trump: Prosecuting Hillary Clinton "Certainly Something We're Going To Look At" | Video... - 0 views

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  • FNC's Sean Hannity asks Donald Trump if Hillary Clinton would be prosecuted under a Trump administration. "You have no choice," Trump replied. "In fairness, you have to look into that." "She seems to be guilty," he said. "But you know what, I wouldn't even say that." "But certainly, it has to be looked at," Trump added. "If a Republican wins, if I'm winning, certainly you will look at that as being fair to anyone else. So unfair to the people that have been prosecuted over the years for doing much less than she did." "So she's being protected, but if I win, certainly it's something we're going to look at," he said. "I bet Barack Obama would pardon her before she leaves," suggests Sean Hannity.
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Former CIA agent released by Lisbon court after Italy reduces sentence - The Portugal News - 0 views

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  • Sabrina de Sousa, a former agent for the US Central Intelligence Agency detained in Portugal on Monday pending extradition to Italy, was on Wednesday freed at the order of Lisbon's appeal court, after Italy's president issued a pardon reducing her prison sentence there by one year, her lawyer told Lusa.
  • An order from the Lisbon court stated that de Sousa should be "freed immediately", at the request of the Italian authorities.   The former spy was to have been extradited on Wednesday to Italy, where she was in 2009 sentenced in absentia to four years in prison for her involvement in the 2003 kidnapping in Milan of Abu Omar, an Egyptian national and radical Islamist. However, Italy's president, Sergio Mattarella, on Tuesday issued a pardon reducing that sentence by one year.   Under Italian law, prison sentences of up to three years may be substituted by community service. As a result the Milan prosecutor handling the case withdraw the European arrest warrant, so cancelling the extradition proceedings.  
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