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2009-08-06 Caribbean-Latin America

Chavez: more nationalization of food industry coming

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Posted by Steve White 2009-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Chavez said that the coffee roasters buy cheap coffee to producers and afterwards they take it to Colombia and sell it four times more expensive, and subsequently they bring it to Venezuela as Colombian coffee. "I took the decision to intervene these two big coffee companies. And the decision was fulfilled," he said.

So basically he says they sell it at high price in Columbia so they can buy it there and take it back to Venezuela?

Does anyone ever really READ this stuff?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-08-06 09:56|| 2009-08-06 09:56|| Front Page Top

#2 because theres nothing like rich, smooth, colombian coffee.

Better coffee, millionaire's money can't buy.

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-08-06 10:47|| 2009-08-06 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 A man is thrown in a Soviet prison cell and the other inhabitants of the cell crowd round him. "How long you in for," they ask.
"Ten years," the new man laments.
"And what did you do?" "Nothing. I did nothing". "You liar," the prisoners shout. "For nothing you get five years!"

Posted by mojo 2009-08-06 11:06|| 2009-08-06 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Starving Venezuelan's in 5...4...3...

Posted by Injun Grinesing9686 2009-08-06 11:23|| 2009-08-06 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Since when has coffee ever been food? Oogo will just do the same thing with it, but he'll sell it for only 3x what it originally cost, and he and his cronies will pocket the profits.

Posted by gorb 2009-08-06 12:40|| 2009-08-06 12:40|| Front Page Top

#6 They came for the coffee, and I said nothing. I didn't coffee. Next they came for the food. Commies are all the same.

Posted by Injun Grinesing9686 2009-08-06 13:05|| 2009-08-06 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Fishy.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-08-06 14:15|| 2009-08-06 14:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Juan Valdez has to sell his Donkey, no work.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-08-06 14:19|| 2009-08-06 14:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Expect the price of coffee to go through the roof in the next few months. Coffee futures, anybody?

Posted by tipper 2009-08-06 14:49|| 2009-08-06 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Chavez argued that those companies "have a monopoly, and monopolies are prohibited by the Constitution."

And nationalization changes this monopoly, how?

Commercial monopoly bad, government monopoly good. Thanks Obama.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-08-06 18:55|| 2009-08-06 18:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Suffer you peons and be forced to drink instant.

Posted by ed 2009-08-06 23:17|| 2009-08-06 23:17|| Front Page Top

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