Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Twenty-thousand metric tons of stinky food rots in Venezuelan port

President Hugo Chavez urged prosecutors on Tuesday to bring charges against those responsible for the putrefaction of roughly 20,000 metric tons of food inside a seaport under the administration of the federal government.

The rotting food was discovered on May 25 inside a warehouse within Puerto Cabello, the country's busiest port, according to a statement released by the prosecutors office.

Intelligence agents confirmed that the expiration dates on many of the decaying foodstuffs, including rice, flour, milk, sugar and cooking oil, were "presumably expired," it said.

Critics of Chavez have pointed to the decomposed food as an example of costly government inefficiency.

-AP

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