Venezuela to reassign private, public workers to agriculture [View all]

[Zorro]

Venezuela said private and public companies will be obliged to let their workers be reassigned to grow crops, in a dramatic move in the middle of the country's crippling economic crisis.

The Labor Ministry announced the measure as part of the economic emergency already in effect; it will require all employers in Venezuela to let the state have their workers "to strengthen production" of food.

President Nicolas Maduro's government is fighting for its life amid staggering inflation and shortages of everything from food to toilet paper, diapers and shampoo.

Maduro, like his predecessor Hugo Chavez, has increasingly moved the country towards taking over parts of the economy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-reassign-private-public-workers-agriculture-014558981.html

Sounds like Maduro's version of Mao's Cultural Revolution is in motion.