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  • Venezuela: Seizing corn meal an option [price controls and communism]

    01/17/2006 3:25:10 PM PST · by grundle · 151 replies · 1,594+ views
    Venezuelan authorities are prepared to seize inventories of corn meal if producers protesting price controls hoard their supplies, an official said Tuesday. The South American country has seen coffee disappear from the shelves in recent weeks as producers refused to sell over price controls that they said eliminated profits. Officials said a 60-percent increase in coffee prices announced Monday would make coffee plentiful again. But some corn producers also have told Venezuelan media they are dissatisfied with current price controls. "I don't think it's necessary to go straight to expropriation, but it's an option," Food Minister Rafael Oropeza told reporters...