WikiLeaks report cites corruption in Venezuela production

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7. Yet there is indeed plenty to refute...if you could.

"..The cargoes came to light last month when state intelligence agents were investigating the theft of powdered milk. The government admits that 30,000 tonnes of food are rotting in the port of Puerto Cabello alone. Opposition media put the total so far at over 75,000 tonnes, or around a fifth of what PDVAL, the state company responsible, imported in 2009. The company’s former president, Luis Pulido, has been arrested for corruption and up to 20 other officials may suffer the same fate...."
http://www.economist.com/node/16326418

"...Church leaders said the failure of the state-owned PDVAL, a subsidiary of the national oil company, to distribute food imports that rotted at the shores was "a sin that Heaven is crying over."

Several thousands tons of rotting meat was among 80,000 tons left to go bad at the Puerto Cabello seaport..."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/7849749/Chavez-pushes-Venezuela-into-food-war.html

"...Comptroller Russián said that his agency would impose the appropriate penalties to those found responsible for the case of rotten food which his office has investigated since 2008..."
http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/06/25/en_ing_esp_rotten-food-scandal_25A4086333.shtml

"...Virginia Mares, the president of the Venezuelan Food Producer and Distributor (Pdval), a food chain attached to state-run oil holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) under the Ministry of Food, claimed that the finding of more than 26,000 tons of food stranded in Puerto Cabello seaport did not take her unawares. They could do nothing, she alleged..."
http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/06/09/en_eco_esp_food-was-not-rotten_09A3988931.shtml