At a coffee stand in a supermarket in the Venezuelan capital, customers purchase Starbucks-branded refreshments from servers clad in the uniform of the American multinational coffee chain. But is this really a Starbucks store? The company denied that they have any link to the store in the South American country, while the CEO of the supermarket where the cafe is based declined to state where they had acquired their Starbucks-branded equipment. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES