"I'm putting you on alert," Chavez said. "If there's a producer that refuses to sell the product ... and sells it at a higher price abroad ... ministers, find me the proof so it can be expropriated." Full Story »
Posted by Andy Jamieson
In Venezuela this story is about relaxing price controls to encourage milk production. The big, new processing plant in Machiques provides vastly increase capacity for pasturizing and bottling milk from dairy farmers, making it easier for dairy farmers to get the milk to market. The "expropriation" theat is against dairies that smuggle the milk to Columbia. CNN's reporting is the most venal sort of propaganda. You heard it here first: The minute we're out of Iraq, we'll "catapult" the Pentagon to Venezuela!
