Posted on 08/25/2016 2:54:22 PM PDT by fella
Eighteen Foods and Medical Goods to Receive General Leadership
Venezuela will be appointing a “general” for 18 foods that are scarce in the country, officials announced Wednesday, August 24.
The announcement was made by Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, who who was recently given power over the economy by President Nicolás Maduro.
“I have assigned a general, along with a civilian-military team, for each food item,” the minister said. “A general or admiral will be chief of rice and will display on a map everything related to production, importation and commercialization.”
Padrino, in charge of the “Great Sovereign Mission for Sure Supply” project, announced the creation of a special support team with 250 rescue workers and 1,700 community leaders for harvesting crops.
“With this effort, we seek to really govern the 18 commodities, in both food and medicine,” the general said without specifying which items are included in the 18.
The minister added that a special commission was established to address the issue of distribution of medical supplies, which has reached a shortage of 81 percent. He said the government will continue not allowing private pharmaceutical to take care of the distribution.
According to an unreleased report, nine items are at critical levels of raw material supply: sugar, rice, corn flour, mayonnaise, wheat bread, food for pets, cheese, crackers and pasta.
In July, Maduro decided all state ministries that manage the country’s economy would now fall under the “order and absolute subordination” of Chief General Padrino López.
The strong military presence involved in the process was rejected by President of Consecomercio Cipriana Ramos, who said he sees flaws in the idea.
“The problem isn’t not having a guardian,” he said. “The problem is that there are no production or imports (down more than 50 percent to date), so there is nothing to distribute. ”
Director of the Caracas Chamber of Commerce Victor Maldonado said he believes the “militarization of the economy” announced by the head of state “ensures the total collapse of the production sector.”
Whatever happened to Baraq’s 45 “czars” I’m sure most are still on the federal payroll somewhere after 7.5 years....
They are just now doing this? After people have been forced to walk miles across the borders to Chile just to find food for purchase? Maduro must go, and preferably before January, when he could appoint equally vile successors.
If there isn’t any food why do they need “Czars” to combat the shortage?
Typical Communism. Coming soon to Amerika.
Maduro: “No chickens? Get me Colonel Sanders!”
Notice how communists of a feather flock together .... here csar, there a csar,.....
I have a long and interesting resume, but I gotta tellya, when those HR folks run into “Prune Czar”, they’re gonna jump back, Jack...
Where are the Five Year Plans? Commies gotta have Five Year Plans so as to know who to send to the gulags when the plans just make things worse.
Columbia and Brazil. Venezuela doesn’t border Chile.
Ain’t communism wonderful?
If Hillary wins its just around the corner
I’d like to be the General for chocolate.
Sounds like 18 people who won’t go hungry.
I want to be general of Smörgåsbords.
I wonder who is the chief of toilet paper.
General Tso will be over General rice.
Help is on the way!
http://qz.com/765250/the-us-government-is-buying-11-million-pounds-of-idle-cheese/
Exactly right!
The next step will be shooting people for not producing goods.
How come all those Millennials that supported Bernie haven’t gone to Venezuela to support their Utopian Ideals there???
Looks like Victor may soon be meeting the "gulag csar".
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