5,000 tons of food was seized during 2008
- 30 January 2008
Caracas, Jan 29 ABN.- Around 5000 tons of food has been seized during year 2008, as part of the operative Food Sovereignty Plan carried out by the National Guard and other organisms of the Venezuelan State, The plan is aimed at struggling against contraband and hoarding.
The announcement was made Tuesday by general commander of National Guard (GN, by its Spanish acronym)), Fredy Alonso Carrión, along with the supreme command of the GN.
Carrión said that the exactly quantity of seized food until January 29 is 4,939,000. The GN policemen always act within the framework of the law; they did not expropriate the food from their owners, they obliged the owners to sell the food to the Venezuelan people.
Most of the food was seized in warehouse located in Táchira and Zulia states, near to Colombia border.
Among the food items were: rice (900,000 kg.), powder milk (335,000 Kg), sugar (up to 946,000 Kg.) chicken (up to 159,000 Kg.), pre-cooked white corn meal (687,000 Kg.), vegetal oil (14,500 liters), and pasta (93,000 Kg.) among other products.
Carrión said that they will continue indefinitely spreading this kind of operatives in all the country, especially in the frontier, in order to counteract the effect of speculation and shortage, caused by the food hoarding and contraband.