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http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americ...ela-buying-too-much-food-can-get-one-arrested
A man waits in line to buy food at a grocery store in La Urbina, east Caracas, Venezuela.
Alejandro Cegarra/Washington Post
A man waits in line to buy food at a grocery store in La Urbina, east Caracas, Venezuela.
The hunt for food started at 4am, when Alexis Camascaro woke up to get in line outside the supermarket. By the time the Venezuelan man arrived, there were already 100 people ahead of him.
Camascaro never made it inside. Truckloads of Venezuelan troops arrived in the darkness, arresting him and nearly 30 others seemingly pulled from the queue at random, according to his lawyer. Camascaro, 50, was charged with violating laws against interfering "directly or indirectly" with the production, transportation or sale of food.
He has been in jail for three months, awaiting a hearing.
A man waits in line to buy food at a grocery store in La Urbina, east Caracas, Venezuela.
Alejandro Cegarra/Washington Post
A man waits in line to buy food at a grocery store in La Urbina, east Caracas, Venezuela.
The hunt for food started at 4am, when Alexis Camascaro woke up to get in line outside the supermarket. By the time the Venezuelan man arrived, there were already 100 people ahead of him.
Camascaro never made it inside. Truckloads of Venezuelan troops arrived in the darkness, arresting him and nearly 30 others seemingly pulled from the queue at random, according to his lawyer. Camascaro, 50, was charged with violating laws against interfering "directly or indirectly" with the production, transportation or sale of food.
He has been in jail for three months, awaiting a hearing.
