Hussein's buddy Hugo Chavez has made another move to tighten his iron-fisted grip on Venezuela: the government has seized control of two of the country's largest coffee processing plants. Coffee is very highly regulated in Venezuela, and a very large part of their economy.
Officials "suspect" that the two companies, Fama de America and Madrid, "might" be smuggling coffee out of the country to sell at higher prices.
"They suspect this might be happening" is Venezuelan for "Chavez wants to run everything in the country, and these guys are getting in the way." Great guy for our prez to be buddying up to, ain't he?
Hussein and Hugo: dragging the fine skin of freedom over the jagged coral reef of socialism, while ignoring the islamic barracudas in the water.
Coffee story here.
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