{"id":8369,"date":"2013-06-10T03:45:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/venezuela-s-maduro-scraps-food-restriction-plan\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T03:45:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:45:07","slug":"venezuela-s-maduro-scraps-food-restriction-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/venezuela-s-maduro-scraps-food-restriction-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Maduro Scraps Food Restriction Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Venezuela&#8217;s President Nicolas Maduro says he has halted a plan to restrict the sale of basic food items in the country&#8217;s most populous state, Zulia.}}<\/p>\n<p>The scheme would have limited the number of packages of items such as rice, milk and sugar shoppers were allowed to buy.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities said it was aimed at curbing smuggling to Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela is suffering from a shortage of some goods, with milk, toilet paper and sugar often not easily available.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on television on Saturday, President Maduro called the plan &#8220;insane&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Critics had said the plan to restrict the sale of 20 basic food items constituted food rationing.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was devised by the authorities in western Zulia state, which borders Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear exactly how it would have worked, but it was meant to prevent shoppers from buying the same product more than once in a day.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities said it was aimed at preventing people from buying large quantities of price-controlled goods in Venezuela only to sell them at a profit in neighbouring Colombia, where they are more expensive.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2920 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rert.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Venezuela&#8217;s President Nicolas Maduro says he has halted a plan to restrict the sale of basic food items in the country&#8217;s most populous state, Zulia.}} The scheme would have limited the number of packages of items such as rice, milk and sugar shoppers were allowed to buy. The authorities said it was aimed at curbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}