Venezuela arrests pharmacy chain owners in 'economic war'
By Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has arrested two bosses of a major pharmacy chain accused of exacerbating long shopping lines in what President Nicolas Maduro calls "an economic war" underway in the recession-hit OPEC nation. Farmatodo's executive president Pedro Angarita and operations vice-president Agustin Alvarez were picked up for questioning at the weekend and formally charged on Wednesday, the attorney general's office said in a statement. For months, many of the chain's 167 st
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