Venezuela's Hugo Chavez tightens state control of food amid rocketing inflation and food shortages
"If any industry wants to ride roughshod over the consumers, with a view to getting better dividends, we are going to act," said Carlos Osorio, the national superintendent of silos and storage. "For the government, access to food is a matter of national security."
Production quotas and prices have now been set for cooking oil, white rice, sugar, coffee, flour, margarine, pasta, cheeses and tomato sauce.
Damn those evil greedy rice farmers! Go get 'em Hugo!
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