{"id":669871,"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.com\/index\/669871","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":2617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ogn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}