Venezuela troops occupy Polar food distribution warehouses

Reuters ^ | July 30, 2015 | Girish Gupta

[C19fan]

Venezuelan troops occupied a Caracas warehouse complex used by local food giant Empresas Polar and Nestle to distribute food and beverages, workers and company officials said on Thursday.

The move follows months of accusations by President Nicolas Maduro that Polar, the country's largest private employer, is working to sabotage the economy. The company denies the accusations.

[C19fan]

/src on/Hail Comrade Maduro for cleansing Venezuela of wreckers and saboteurs who stand in the day of implementing the Chavezista Workers Paradise./src off/If I lived there I would stockpile Nestle products before they are totally gone.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[marron]

Maduro and the Chavistas, giving the Venezuelan people what they asked for good and hard.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Coming soon to a country near you.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep!

[Buckeye McFrog]

They are going to convert the warehouse into “low income housing”. Not coincidentally there is an election coming up in December.

[struggle]

I heard that there was no more beer in Venezuela which would cause me to burn the whole country down.

[rellimpank]

—drank my share of Polar beer when I was there for six months thirty -odd years ago—times have sure changed—

[Veggie Todd]

All your food are belong to us.

[thorvaldr]

“Polar, the country’s largest private employer, ...”

Almost as evil as Walmart, I suppose.

Bernie Sanders would like you to know that socialism works and the reason Venezuela has food shortages is they have too many different kinds of antiperspirant.

[Popman]

Why any American company is still doing business in Venezuela is beyond my understanding...

[dfwgator]

“Death to Kulaks!”

[lormand]

Socialism is the spread of misery, unless you are the dictator like Maduro. I’ll bet Maduro is eating Kobe beef tonight.

[rfreedom4u]

The LDS have a food warehouse in Houston. I wonder how fast the government would move in a take it if the SHTF?

My guess is pretty fast.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Socialists: They defy the laws of economics, then when things go predictably awry, they blame a capitalist for “sabotaging the economy.”

[Martin Tell]

And after all the food is seized, will Polar re-stock the warehouse? Not bloody likely. Man, this country could be starving very soon. I suppose Obama will send in the Marine’s with MREs to keep his commie buddies from losing their heads.

[rawcatslyentist]

It's all the evil capitalists fault!

[Louis Foxwell]

The government is sabatoging the economy. About that there is absolutely no disagreement, not even among government officials. Those same officials, however, hell bent as they are on destroying the private sector, see Polar as their enemy.

[Red_Devil 232]

I did like Polar Beer back in the day!

[PGR88]

So be it. Burn the country down, but slowly

Sadly, the world always needs to have before them an example of the destruction of socialism. People never learn

So let it be Venezuela.