# Maduro launches CLAP local food-box committees during scarcity Date: 2016 ## The fact In April 2016 President Maduro rolled out Comités Locales de Abastecimiento y Producción (CLAP) to deliver subsidised food boxes through local PSUV-linked committees amid shortages. ## Context 2016 contraction sat as parent. Neighbouring later dollarization is a different market instrument. He did not sit as every box packer. 2016 GDP leak is the parent scarcity year. Barbados is a much later political child. The President of Venezuela heads the national executive, commands FANB as commander-in-chief, appoints the cabinet, and can request enabling laws. He does not write an OFAC designation, an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber decision, or a Colombian migration statute. A CNE announcement is not an opposition acta and is not a Carter Center finding. Those three statuses stay on separate rows. An ICC investigation is not a conviction. An IMF figure is labelled as an estimate where BCV stopped publishing. Sanctions after 2017 and 2019 are an external causal factor; they do not erase the pre-2017 PDVSA-and-policy collapse. ## Evidence and sources Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power) and [food-price pressure](/drivers/food-price-pressure), with a capture leak: a completed box programme that can raise calories while routing rents. ## What is established and what is not Established: 2016 CLAP launch as a dated food-box instrument, independently reported. Not established: a unique later poverty-rate miracle, or that every box reached every household without diversion. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. PSUV locals and the food ministry distribute. Intermediaries and later corruption dockets share the capture file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Maduro launches CLAP local food-box committees during scarcity, not a later speech about Maduro launches CLAP local food-box committees during scarcity. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Maduro launches CLAP local food-box committees during scarcity on 2016-04-03 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Maduro launches CLAP local food-box committees during scarcity into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He launched the committees. PSUV locals and the food ministry distribute. Intermediaries and later corruption dockets share the capture file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Nicolás Maduro: https://factrail.ai/people/nicolas-maduro ## Drivers - Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power - Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption - Food-Price Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/food-price-pressure ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-food-idUSKCN0X61J4 - https://mppre.gob.ve/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-clap-2016