VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports: It's on! President Chavez has decided to engage forces with Venezuela's main economic powers. During a visit to the expropriated Diana company in Carabobo, Chavez said he has taken up the gauntlet thrown him by the Federation of Chambers of Industry & Commerce (Fedecamaras), Confederation of Commerce & Services (Consecomercio), Venezuelan Chamber of Food Industries (Cavidea) and "other odds and ends."
The main face of the enemy is Lorenzo Mendoza, owner of the Polar beer and food company, who has come under presidential attack ever Chavez expropriated a site in Barquisimeto where the company ran a distribution point. Chavez has promised to build houses there.
Mendoza was told to take a "look in the mirror" and what he would see, Chavez said, was Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) whose main shareholder, the autocratic Marcel Granier, also declared war on the government, only to lose.
What has bothered Chavez is the unilateral reaction of Polar company workers that have come out in full support of Mendoza and the company. The President attributed the support to manipulation on the part of Mendoza. Once again, Chavez commented that it was shameful and embarrassing to see workers assigned a number like prisoners to secure their collaboration in photo shots.
The statements against the private sector, Chavez continued, should be taken properly in the spirit that like RCTV no group should think themselves indispensable. Polar's owner was advised not to run against Chavez in presidential elections in 2012 because he could be left "holding the body."
Polar was one of the leaders of the April 11, 2002 (11A) coup, Chavez reminded Mendoza.
If Mendoza thinks that the government would not expropriate the company, Chavez quipped, then he'd better think twice.
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