Franklin David was arrested last week in this impoverished town outside Caracas for doing what his family says he has done almost every day for the past 25 years: selling car parts.
In a surprise raid, about two dozen armed police officers flanked by Santa Teresa del Tuy’s mayor and journalists showed up at David’s four-story warehouse, Autopartes Guarico 2000, and hauled away the 49-year-old father of three for allegedly raising prices by too much in a country ravaged by hyperinflation.
His already-struggling business, built from scratch during a more prosperous era, was shut . . .
