Hugo Chavez has decided to nationalize a rice factory ‘owned’ by the American company ‘Cargill’, and operated by Venezuelan slaves. Chavez did this bearing the evil communist intent of providing affordable food to his countrymen. It is being viewed as yet another act of defiance against the honest ‘west’, who has a nifty patchwork of rules and laws that make anything they do seem legitimate. He insists that the company tried to evade pricing regulations by producing a strain of rice that was not subject to the controls… as any free market corporation would.