On Friday, the Venezuelan government took temporary control of a pasta factory owned by the U.S. company Cargill and located in Vargas state. The vice minister for food, Rafael Coronado, said the government will run the factory for 90 days, and make a new decision in the meantime on how to proceed.
The Venezuelan government expropriated a plant owned by the
multi-national food company Cargill that was found to be modifying all
its rice so as to evade price controls on basic food items.
