Maduro orders food producers to surrender 70% of their goods. OR ELSE.

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The government requires entrepreneurs to deliver 70% of production
Carlos Larrazabal, president of Fedecamaras, assured that the distribution channels that are not with the State will not be left practically nothing and consumers will find empty shelves

By CARLOS SEIJAS MENESES | [e-mail]
JUNE 29, 2018 01:59 AM

On the first day of meetings with productive sectors, the government did not tremble. The Minister of Industry and National Production, Tareck el Aissami, said that the intention with the meetings was to "open up the cost structures" of 50 products and subsequently set new prices. However, the entrepreneurs were surprised: they were required to deliver 70% of their production to the Executive.



Carlos Larrazabal, president of Fedecamaras, said that the union rejects in a forceful way that they want to force the producers to deliver that percentage of their production to the government. "That is an interventionism, already at an extreme stage, which will continue to affect the producer and sharpen the supply and the crisis that all Venezuelans are experiencing."

The government did not report how they would pay employers the percentage of production they would be required to deliver. "There is no price certainty," he said.

The manager warned that for private distributors there will be practically nothing left and consumers will find empty shelves. "If the production is going to be destined mainly to the government so that they deliver it in a populist way and with ideological management to the people they consider, those who do not have access to those official distribution channels will not be able to obtain products in any way". He indicated that this measure will also feed the bachaqueo.

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