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Venezuela Military Trafficking Food as Country Goes Hungry

When hunger drew tens of thousands of Venezuelans to the streets last summer in protest, President Nicolas Maduro turned to the military to manage the country's diminished food supply, putting generals in charge of everything from butter to rice. 

But instead of fighting hunger, the military is making money from it, an Associated Press investigation shows. That's what grocer Jose Campos found when he ran out of pantry staples this year. In the middle of the night, he would travel to an illegal market run by the military to buy corn flour — at 100 times the government-set price. 

"The military would be watching over whole bags of money," Campos said. "They always had what I needed." 

With much of the oil country on the verge of starvation and malnourished children dying in pediatric wards, food trafficking has become big business in Venezuela. And the military is at the heart of the graft, according to documents and interviews with more than 60 officials, company owners and workers, including five former generals.

DYI:  ABC news article with only one short mention of socialism.  No big surprise.

 The socialist administration says it takes graft seriously.

That's it!  I can go on and on how government run business' or the military will not solve Venezuela's problems.  Free enterprise - property rights - minute regulations - very low taxation - the rule of law upheld -  Venezuela would bounce back and if maintained would be seen as the tiger nation of South America.  But alas it appears that Maduro is the worst type of Socialist - THE TRUE BELIEVER!  Any time between now and two years Maduro will be gone either through the ballot box or revolution no country citizens will put up with this forever.

DYI