Venezuela's price controls trim production

Chavez is a Socialist dumb arse. He should stop taking advice from fellow american dumb arse's like Jimmy Carter, Sean Penn, Micky Moore and Gumby Glover.

"...Because private farmers can't recoup their costs, they are cutting production, forcing the Chavez government to import foods for which the country was once self-sufficient. Although worker cooperatives are producing more and more food, they are far short of covering the private sector's decline in output.

Total Venezuelan imports could hit $40 billion this year, a 20 percent increase from 2006.

"The state's answer is to import milk and beef from Brazil, Argentina and New Zealand, creating jobs there and poverty here," said Jose Antonio Coraspe, a third-generation rancher and president of the Cattlemen's Federation in Monagas.

I wonder how long it's going to be before Chavez starts ordering unproductive or black marketeering farmers to be shot

Mexico, get into the game. You have more than them.