Venezuelan shop owners arrested over long queues

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

2 February 2015 Last updated at 03:08 GMT

Venezuelan shop owners arrested over long queues

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the owners of an unnamed chain of shops have been arrested for artificially creating long queues.

Mr Maduro said the owners had reduced the number of employees working on cash tills in order to create queues and "annoy the Venezuelan people".

He has accused Venezuela's business elite of boycotting his government.

The opposition blames the socialist policies of the past 16 years for the worsening economic crisis.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31086391

[Oele]

1. The unnamed chain is called Farmatodo.

http://www.efectococuyo.com/efecto-cocuyo/directiva-de-farmatodo-detenida-en-el-sebin/

http://www.2001.com.ve/con-la-gente/89521/abren-procedimiento-a-cadena-de-farmacias-farmatodo-por-irregularidades.html

[DetlefK]

2. This Maduro-guy is mighty annoying.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Socialists are all very annoying to capitalists.

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[Bacchus4.0]

5. Queues are fun aren't they? nt

[Judi Lynn]

7. Just like the poor, from whom they derive both their products, and their wealth.

They live because of the poor, as parasites, yet despise them.

The hilarious part is when they pretend around elections to really "care" about the lives of the ones from whom they derive everything, including the police to protect them from the people they hate.

Should the plight of the poor improve, they won't be so desperate to work for them at slave wages, and that would affect the profit they make, etc., etc., etc. Any improvement in the well-being of the poor will inflame the parasites. It only works if their wealth comes from the stability, security, and well-being so desperately needed by the poor.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Socialists are ever the champions of the poor, capitalists the enemy. Maduro is not a capitalist.

What more does anyone need to know about intentions and truth in socialist, oil nationalized Venezuela?


The jingoistic phraseology of the miserablely produced capitalist propaganda is hilariously transparent.

Ignoring the election of a socialist government in a democratic national election, twice, just has to be ignored in the process.

Don't capitalists just hate democracy sometimes?

[Bacchus4.0]

9. How would you rate the socialist Maduro governance thus far? Just curious.

Seems pretty shitty to those of us with access to the internet or a tv.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Fox News, of course, and El Nuevo Herald, and El Universal. Perfect. You're set to go. n/t

[Bacchus4.0]

12. what are you babbling about? and you are Fred too? n/t

[Judi Lynn]

11. Your second sentence reminded me of a link I read from Good Reads yesterday:

Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
By Ralph Lopez Jan 26, 2015 in World .

Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a "propagandist," an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/editor-of-major-german-newspaper-says-he-planted-stories-for-cia/article/424470#ixzz3Qf6PpzN3

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Exactly what so many, MANY people have believed they knew for so many years, now.

Awareness is growing, no matter HOW hard they increase their efforts to "mold public perception."

[Marksman_91]

3. What's funny is that these long queues are also happening in State-owned goods shops

Maduro is just looking for another smokescreen to distract people with the whole "economic war" bullshit. Farmatodo had been established over a hundred years ago and was one of the most successful pharmaceutical chains in the country. Now a legacy has been left in shambles thanks to the desperation of the Nincompoop to try to make things look like they're not his administration's fault. This is such a sad thing to see.

[Bacchus4.0]

6. I don't see how there are people who still support this government n/t

[Marksman_91]

13. Here's a lovely gem from the honorable Bolivarian National Guard

[Bacchus4.0]

14. watched that now, hungry people beaten. Thanks chavistas. n/t