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Facing the events that occurred in 2002, when the private commercial sector, against
the government of President Hugo Chávez Frías, decided to harden the social and
economic situation in Venezuela with the strike of the main food production and
marketing industries, position to which the higher payroll of Petróleos de Venezuela
SA (PDVSA) was added, was created in 2003, after the end of the economic and oil
strike, The MERCAL Mission as part of the strategies of the revolutionary leader to
avoid any other attempted food sabotage that left the nation high costs.
Along this path to guarantee and ensure food security, the Ministry of Popular
Power for Food (MINPPAL) was born in September 2004 with the main objective of
ensuring sovereign compliance, access to the food basket, at fair and excellent prices.
quality. This is how this body begins to implement policies in the field of trade,
industry, marketing and distribution of food, through the regulation, formulation,
monitoring and evaluation of the State in this sector.
In the same year, the Agricultural Supply and Services Corporation (CASA) joined
the food portfolio, in order to channel food storage, which would allow managing
reserves in a strategic way for producers in this area.
Under the policies designed by President Chávez, in 2004 the Food Houses were also
raised, which would fulfill the role of serving areas of extreme poverty and child
malnutrition, one more debt left by the Fourth Republic, placing it at 8% .
In the second phase of transformation that carried food dignity as its flag, in 2005,
Logística CASA (Logicasa) entered the arena, which opened its doors to take care of
customs operations, quality control, storage and transportation of food. The National
President always occupied by the most vulnerable and excluded populations, activates
the Strategic Food Program Foundation (Fundaproal) at the disposal of the people,
through the Food Houses and the delivery of nutritional supplements with the
implementation of the Solidarity Exchange, to deliver free prepared food and the basic
basket to those who need it most.
2006 represented the strengthening of food storage, with the creation of the
National Superintendency of Silos, Warehouses and Agricultural Deposits (SADA),
which would be the spearhead to guarantee the deposit and management of the
strategic reserve of the agro-industrial sector.
The socialist route to ensure food sovereignty continued in 2008 with the enactment of
the Organic Law on Food Security and Sovereignty and the creation of the Productora
y Distribuidora Venezolana de Alimentos S.A (PDVAL).