Venezuela is imposing a government food redistribution system, that requires locals to acquire food from Socialist Party members, a move triggering national outrage as anti-socialist activists say the Party will use food to coerce citizens into supporting it...
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The bags are meant to last 21 days, according to the government but carry only 3 kilos of rice, a kilo each of sugar and milk, a bag of beans and a liter of oil.
Controlling food supplies has become increasingly important to the Venezuelan government as riots become more and more common.
Last week, in the heart of Caracas, hungry patrons of a local market rioted after seeing a shipment of rice enter the market and almost immediately being told the food had been redistributed to the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), the troops typically responsible for attacking peaceful anti-government protests. Chanting “we want food,” a crowd of hundreds began to march towards the presidential palace, halted only by the GNB using tear gas and violent Chavista gangs known as “colectivos” attacking both protesters and journalists.
Chavista socialist leaders have insisted that the riots make the CLAP distribution method necessary, though they have also assured Venezuelans that the groups are “an emergency measure, not intended to be the structural solution to the problem...”
Experts have expressed concern that placing the nation’s food supply at the mercy of Socialist Party loyalists can result in the starvation of anti-socialist activists or even those who prefer to abstain from political activity. “Excluding a social faction with something as delicate as acquiring food could even take on genocidal characteristics,” Venezuelan professor Magally Huggins said of the plan to have one party control all food. “It is a food apartheid,” she added.
“The CLAP are a tool to radicalize the political discrimination Venezuela endures thanks to this government,” opposition legislator Nora Bracho told reporters this week. “The CLAPs will only bring a small bag of food to followers of the government’s party, and those who do not follow the red ideology will continue to suffer hunger.”
“It is unacceptable that the little food that there is, the government distribute through its party,” Henrique Capriles Radonski, governor of Miranda state and Maduro’s opponent in the last two presidential elections, said of the move. “We cannot allow them to color food with politics. It is unacceptable that, due to political preference, people be denied food.”
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