Venezuelan Pharmacy Chain Challenges State Raid, Expropriation

In the last five days alone, the Venezuelan government has arrested at least 17 owners, shareholders, or managers of private companies, whose property or workplaces have also been confiscated by the government. On the night of Saturday, January 31, six managers and the executive president of pharmaceutical and foodstuffs chain Farmatodo, a business with over 160 stores and more than 90 years of operations in the country, were arrested. Five were later freed from the headquarters of the Intelligence Service (Sebin) on Sunday. More…