Maduro blames Venezuela's biggest food company for scarcities [View all]

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Caracas, May 11 (EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused Polar, the country's biggest food corporation, of reducing production and hoarding products to cause scarcities in the country, and spoke of economic "sabotage" against his presidency.

"We have many indications that Polar has been...reducing production and hiding products to cause scarcities in the consumer market," Maduro said during a event obligatorily broadcast on all radio stations and television channels.

The president has summoned the owner of the company, Lorenzo Mendoza, to a meeting this Tuesday with all his management team to explain to the government "why you are reducing production, why are you causing a scarcity of products."

Polar produces some of the basic ingredients of the Venezuelan diet, such as the P.A.N. brand of cornflour, the essential ingredient of the famous Venezuelan arepas.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/agencia-efe/130511/maduro-blames-venezuelas-biggest-food-company-scarcities