Venezuela jails 100 "bourgeois" businessmen in crackdown


  • World
  • Friday, 15 Nov 2013

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro talks to supporters during a meeting outside Miraflores Palace in Caracas November 12, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist government has arrested more than 100 "bourgeois" businessmen in a crackdown on alleged price-gouging at hundreds of shops and companies since the weekend, President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.

"They are barbaric, these capitalist parasites!" Maduro thundered in the latest of his lengthy daily speeches. "We have more than 100 of the bourgeoisie behind bars at the moment."

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