CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's government may take temporary control of a shuttered medicine plant that belongs to Pfizer Inc., a top official said Friday, suggesting that the New York-based company should resume production.
Venezuela's consumer protection agency planned to ask President Hugo Chavez to order the takeover after Pfizer closed a medicine factory in the eastern city of Valencia, one of two it has in Venezuela, said Trade Minister Eduardo Saman, who heads the agency.
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