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MADem

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2. Venezuela IMPORTS rice from USA and elsewhere. They do not grow nearly enough to satisfy

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 11:44 PM

Feb 2015

domestic demand. For the last decade, rice production has fallen in VZ, not risen. If they were exporting, they were taking rice out of the mouths of Venezuelans to do that.

Ever since Chavez got sick and died they've paid less attention to those kinds of things.

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