The US Covert War on Venezuela in 2015 – Diary: Jan 29

[Judi Lynn]

The US Covert War on Venezuela in 2015 – Diary: Jan 29
By Arturo Rosales and Les Blough in Venezuela
Axis of Logic
Thursday, Jan 29, 2015


Plenty of coffee in the coffee houses and bakeries in Caracas. In the supermarkets or grocery stores? Very rare in the last few months. This is hardly surprising when, in the last week, the authorities uncovered more than 1,000 tons of ground coffee and roasted coffee beans waiting to be spirited away to Colombia. In Falcón state 15 tons of coffee was found; in Lara state a supplier and packaging company had 500 tons standing idle in his warehouse; in neighboring Portuguesa state a further 460 tons were discovered hidden in a warehouse and being sold as “gourmet coffee” which is almost 6 times the official price for standard ground coffee when there is, is fact, very little difference.

At the other end of country in Anzoategui state, the National Guard found 91 tons of food, personal hygiene and cleaning products. In this haul the authorities found 50,600 kilos of corn flour; 23,180 kilos of wheat flour; 9,100 kilos of rice; 3,510 kilos of pasta; 4,700 liters of vegetable cooking oil and 830 cans of fish. We could not detect if arrests were made.



Interestingly enough cooking oil has suddenly become easy to find in Caracas - BUT, as this game continues, now white rice has vanished and all you can find is brown rice. Venezuela exported rice last year so where has it gone? Has it all been eaten suddenly?!

A smaller haul of hoarded basic products was found in Catia in the west of Caracas on Saturday. Local people noted something strange about movements at night in a warehouse and alerted the Superintendent of Fair Price whose tram took the corrective action and placed three individuals in the hands of the Attorney General’s Office for hoarding 33 tons of basic products.

In this economic war being waged by the business sector against its own customers, it is not just food that is hoarded. In recent months it has been difficult to find motor oil as it was being hidden and sold at speculative prices. In Guatire – a satellite town on the outskirts of Greater Caracas - the authorities decommissioned 967 liters of motor oil along with hundreds of kilos of corn flour and other personal hygiene products such as the “impossible-to-find shampoo” and bath soap. Investigations continue to try and locate the owner of the warehouse.

More:
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_69213.shtml

[leveymg]

1. Reminds one of Track 2 in Chile c. '73.

The CIA organized trucker strikes and engineered shortages. But Nixon and Kissinger did that sort of thing to protect the Chileans from the danger of too muchh democracy. What's the excuse this time? Sure would love to read the Presidential finding that authorizes this one - but that's been classified for our protection. Silly me.

[MADem]

2. Venezuela IMPORTS rice from USA and elsewhere. They do not grow nearly enough to satisfy

domestic demand. For the last decade, rice production has fallen in VZ, not risen. If they were exporting, they were taking rice out of the mouths of Venezuelans to do that.

Ever since Chavez got sick and died they've paid less attention to those kinds of things.