{"id":340319,"date":"2010-02-19T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2010\/02\/a-peaceful-expropriation.html"},"modified":"2010-02-19T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:05:10","slug":"a-peaceful-expropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/340319","title":{"rendered":"A Peaceful Expropriation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez is seeking to purchase a local unit of France's Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA, a few weeks after he first ordered the expropriation of one of the retail chains controlled by the French company.<\/p>\n

Venezuela has started negotiations with Casino to buy an 80% stake in Cativen, Casino's local subsidiary, after the French company offered to sell it to the government following the seizure of its Almacenes Exito retail chain, Mr. Ch\u00e1vez said Saturday.<\/p>\n

"They want to sell to Venezuela," he said.<\/p>\n

He said the government has started "friendly negotiations" with the French company to purchase Cativen and its chain of grocery stores, known as Cada.<\/p>\n

No possible financial terms were disclosed. Monday Casino confirmed it was in discussions but declined to comment further.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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From the WSJ: Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez is seeking to purchase a local unit of France's Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA, a few weeks after he first ordered the expropriation of one of the retail chains controlled by the French company. Venezuela has started negotiations with Casino to buy an 80% stake in Cativen, Casino's local subsidiary, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}