Hugo Chavez Spearheads Raids as Food Prices Skyrocket

Obama's mentor, as is Obama, enjoying the fruits of their policies.

Mountains of rotting food found at a government warehouse, soaring prices and soldiers raiding wholesalers accused of hoarding: Food supply is the latest battle in President Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution.

It is also the latest issue to divide the Latin American country where Chavez has nationalized a wide swathe of the economy, he says to reverse years of exploitation of the poor.

Critics accuse him of steering the country toward a communist dictatorship and say he is destroying the private sector.