Nestlé : how to survive in Venezuela By facebooker_1259222564265974 1866 Creation of Nestlé 1957 Nestlé's first factory in Venezuela La Encrucijada 1974 Carlos Perez's first presidency 1989 Carlos Perez's second presidency 1990 Nestlé's CEO becomes the official economic adviser of President Carlos Perez 1997 Santa Cruz factory 1999 Hugo Chavez President of Venezuela 2002 Oil strike in Venezuela 2008 Chavez threatens to nationalise Nestlé 2010 Beginning of the socio-economical and political crisis as well as of the famine in Venezuela 2010 Chavez threatens to kick Nestlé out of the country because of the penury 2013 Nicolas Maduro President of Venezuela 2014 Strike of the Nestlé workers 2016 Beginning of the hyperinflation in Venezuela