CARACAS, Tuesday October 14, 2008 | Update
Economy
Venezuela's Customs and Tax Administration Service (Seniat)
shut by three days the 62 restaurants of Venezuelan fast food
chain Arturo's, due to inconsistencies in the ledger of the
company.
The measure was preceded by the closure last week of 115
restaurants of fast food giant McDonald's, the largest in
the world, for inconsistencies found in the sales and purchases
records, DPA reported.
Venezuela's tax agency said it ordered the closure for three
days of the fast food chain Pollos Arturo's for not fulfilling
their formal tax duties, specifically in purchase records.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."