National guardsmen and state price
adjusters fanned out across Venezuela Wednesday to impose a military-style
occupation with an unusual goal: Making sure shoppers can buy enough sugar.The
South American country's socialist administration temporarily took over the Dia
a Dia supermarket chain as part of a crackdown on the private businesses it
blames for worsening shortages and long lines. Embattled President Nicolas
Maduro says right-wing owners are purposely making shopping a nightmare by
hoarding goods and removing checkout stations. He has promised to jail any
business owner found to be fomenting economic chaos. Two executives of
Venezuela's largest drugstore chain, Farmatodo, were detained over the weekend
as part of an investigation by price-control authorities. More…
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