FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks line up at a vegetables street market during the nationwide quarantine as coronavirus disease continues in Caracas, Venezuela April 23, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero
Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced the measure on Friday as part of a slew of steps to try to control prices and slow inflation during the coronavirus pandemic, which together with an acute fuel shortage complicating the transport of goods is prompting a rise in consumer prices.
The move toward price controls marks a shift away from a gradual liberalization of economic policy in the OPEC nation. In the face of U.S. sanctions imposed early last year, President Nicolas Maduro relaxed enforcement of decades-old price controls and eased restrictions on the use of foreign currency.
The government also said it would supervise the sales of Plumrose, a meat producer, and a 180-day intervention at cooking oils producer Coposa. It also announced fixed prices on 27 basic products.
What, wait. Are there private companies in Venezuela? But, but I was told...
It's good time for you to dust off files of 2015 and 2016 to see what we had to live on that time. Now it will be repeated but in pandemic scenario.
Why could this evil regime still alive ?
Arbitrario es, Lorenzo Mendoza robando al pueblo. Claro, ustedes nunca lo van a decir, porque son parte de la nómina mediática de la polar.
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