Socialist Paradise? Venezuela Calls In Military To Assist Looters (VIDEO)

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” -Bastiat

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro ordered the occupation of an electronic goods chain in a crackdown on what the government is calling “price gouging”. [contextly_sidebar id=”5da184bf3bab8fe190a14daa2305494d”]

Managers of the 500 employee Daka Chain have been arrested and the electronics chain is being forced to sell products at what the socialist government calls “fair prices”. The military was called in to occupy the stores and enforce prices, resulting in official government looting.

From Reuters: 

State media showed soldiers in one Daka shop checking the price tags on large flat-screen TVs. And hundreds of bargain-hunters flocked to Daka stores on Saturday morning to take advantage of the new, cheaper prices.

“We’re doing this for the good of the nation,” said Maduro, 50, who accuses wealthy businessmen and right-wing political opponents backed by the United States of waging an economic “war” against him.

“I’ve ordered the immediate occupation of this chain to offer its products to the people at fair prices, everything. Let nothing remain in stock … We’re going to comb the whole nation in the next few days. This robbery of the people has to stop.”

The measure, which comes after weeks of warnings from the government of a pre-Christmas push against private businesses to keep prices down, recalled the sweeping takeovers during the 14-year rule of Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chavez.

A professor at a local university Maria G. Colmenares tweeted: “Today it’s Daka. Tomorrow it’ll be the banks where you save your money.”

 


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