Chavez currency takeover leaves whisky supply low
Posted: August 15, 2010 at 6:42 a.m.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has declared an economic war against bourgeois comforts, is winning one for the socialists in his battle against the nation’s most popular spirit: Scotch whisky.
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