Venezuela: Cheese producers arrested for not giving kickbacks (10% off the top) to local Chavista
Fedenaga: 12 cheese producers continue to be detained in Apure
By Runrun.es Date: 03/07/2018
translated from Spanish
he president of the National Federation of Cattle Ranchers of Venezuela (Fedenaga), Carlos Albornoz, reported that 12 people have been detained since Tuesday when they were about to distribute 100 tons of cheese, among them, the president of the Livestock Association of Apure (Agapure), Manuel Castillo.
"They are being presented this Wednesday before the courts," said Albornoz.
The president of Fedenagas also denounced that in the states of Barinas, Apure and Guárico they are requesting 10% of the production from farmers through regional police officers.
"There are recurrent ambushes, especially on Mondays when the cellars loaded with cheese come in the Camaguán municipality of San Fernando de Apure," he said.
Albornoz said that the measure arose as a result of the creation of a company by the mayor of the municipality of San Fernando. "Over there, more than a hundred tons of hard cheese pass through weekly for that company that does not have the legality."
"This is a totally illegal measure, which does not correspond to the current legal norm. We farmers will continue to stand on the norm", he said.
"The producers were arrested after being attacked with tear gas and pellets," Fedenaga said.
"The total load is 100 tons which is equivalent to 100,000 kilos of cheese. The mayor of San Fernando de Apure, demanded that they deliver 10 tons, about 10,000 kilos, at a price of Bs. 40,000 per kilo, when the fixed price is between Bs. 300,000 and Bs. 350,000 per kilo" informed the representative of Agapure before Fedenaga, Chara Melgarejo, Tal Tal Digital.
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The scam is this. The local Chavista alcalde/mayor of the region sets up a Chavista run bureaucratic "business" that demands fealty from the local farmers/ranchers/producers. Cattle. Chicken. Eggs. Cheese. They send their Chavista (PNB) arm breakers out along the main roads to stop the trucks coming from these producers... confiscating the loads and demanding a 10% cut at ridiculously low compensation (a few pennies on the dollar). These Chavistas then sell the produce to the government (or on the open market/enchufados) who get retail price for the foods they just confiscated.
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