Maduro blames Venezuela's biggest food company for scarcities

[Marksman_91]

30. Elías Jaua asks Polar to make a small "sacrifice" and produce at a loss to guarantee food supplies

The article is in Spanish, but I'll do my best to translate.

http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/167915/jaua-lorenzo-mendoza-busca-chantajear-con-el-argumento-de-incapacidad-para-producir/

The chancellor of the republic, Elías Jaua Milano, established his position before the statement made by the executive president of Empresas Polar, Lorenzo Mendoza. He said that "we do not avoid the responsibility for what is happening, but he knows that he too has responsibility. He's trying to find an excuse with the argument that their economic structures don't provide enough to produce. If there were losses, they would have left Venezuela a while ago because supposedly this is the country where all businessmen operate at a loss, but yet all of them are very rich"

The chancellor considers that Polar can produce more, "that they can distribute more and cooperate with the supply, against the hoarding, and if they produce at a loss, we ask them that they make a small sacrifice, the same one they made near the end of 2002, when their production was stopped until January 2003. They can operate at a loss for a few weeks to guarantee that our people have the basic products"

He maintained that with unity, resolution, the mobilization of the people and the government spread out on the streets will overcome the current situation regarding the basic food shortage. "We're not interested in that Capriles recognizes the results, we just want that he complies with the people of Miranda as governor"

Jaua assured that the "consultation made by the majority fraction of the Legislative Council of Miranda, the one made to PSUV to clarify the current situation in the state of Miranda, doesn't seek more than to give an answer to the needs of the Mirandinos. We don't care that they don't recognize the election results. They didn't recognize the ones in the 2004 referendum, and there is still government today... He has responsibilities as governor and he must carry them out. We seek for him to govern in Miranda and that he attends the problems affecting the population"