Mercal, the state-run chain of low-cost food outlets, announced that it had sufficient powdered milk in store to meet demand for five months. Mercal says it's building a "strategic reserve" of food to avoid shortages, of which powdered milk has been a notorious example.
Panhandlers who are being pressed to move into agriculture took to the streets in Raul Leoni in Bolívar state on Thursday, blocking access roads into the town. They say they're still waiting for payment of Bs.F.10,000 to each of them which they claim Basic Industries and Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz promised three months ago.
Uruguayan Industry and Energy Minister Daniel Martinez said there was no agreement with state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) on a refinery project, as has been reported in Caracas. The project would be put out to international bid tender, the minister said.
Officials at state electricity company Cadafe are said to have prepared plans to ration supplies in the states of Anzoategui and Sucre -- and possibly elsewhere in the country as well -- because there isn't enough power to go arround. Consumers could be put on a rota of cuts of up to 90 minutes at peak times.
Police in Miranda state say they've caught a fraudster whom they'd been chasing for 10 years. The suspect, named as Gustavo Perez, had fooled families in Plaza and Zamora by promising homes to them. He was arrested after being stopped on a rural road in broad daylight. As they say, there's one born every minute.
Watchrepairer Javier Antonio Marin Martinez, 31, was minding his own business and doing his work when a gunman turned up and shot him twice in the head without uttering a word on Avenida Fuerzas Armadas last Thursday. Bystanders said they'd witnessed two killings at the same spot and both victims repaired watches.
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