Via the BBC: Chavez sends army to rice plants
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered the army to take control of all rice processing plants in the country.
Mr Chavez accused some firms of overcharging by refusing to produce rice at prices set by the government.
He warned that some companies could be nationalised if they tried to interfere with supplies of the grain.
Mr Chavez - who has nationalised large swathes of Venezuela’s economy - did not say how long the government intervention would last.
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He said that those companies who had threatened to paralyse rice production could be expropriated.
“I will expropriate them, I have no problem with that, and I’ll pay them with bonds. Don’t count on me paying with hard cash,” he said, without mentioning any companies by name.
Two things occur: 1) no doubt Chávez is now emboldened by his win last month (not that he hasn’t done things like this in the past), and 2) when people in the US toss around carelessly the term “nationalization” in the current US context, they need to think about what they are actually saying.
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