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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 01:06 PM Apr 2014

Venezuela rationing food to combat shortages

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2014/04/venezuela-rationing-food-combat-shortages-201448115655369925.html

Due to a severe shortage of basic food supplies in Venezuela, people are hoarding what they can.

It has forced the government to begin a food rationing, seeing many Venezuelans queuing up to register for this new programme.

Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez in Caracas reports on the looming crisis.
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Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
1. Gotta love the fact that non-US apologist websites are publishing these stories
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 03:37 PM
Apr 2014

Sure makes it harder and harder for the maduristas in this forum to say that the oligarchs' media is publishing lies.

 

Flatulo

(5,005 posts)
2. I know, next we'll be hearing that AJ is a R/W,
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 05:14 PM
Apr 2014

pro-USA, propaganda outlet.

It's getting harder and harder to polish this turd.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
6. Indeed--and it can't be explained away with "Waah, they just hate Hugo's legacy" nonsense, either.
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 10:27 AM
Apr 2014

No wonder Maduro's wife's kids are living in FL--someone has to manage the "bolthole" in the event of a total collapse.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
7. interesting....on the wife and kids. Hugo's legacy hahaha just look at the disaster that country
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 07:22 PM
Apr 2014

has become. That's the legacy.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
8. They own a Japanese restaurant. I think they changed the name of it recently
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 10:22 PM
Apr 2014

when too many people--mostly expat VZers--figured out who owned it and started bad mouthing the place. "Mom" owns a house she's trying to sell in a gated community in Doral--she bought it for a half million or so and was trying to get one point four, but that didn't fly so it's deeply discounted now...still no takers. Bad karma, or something...?

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
9. no other country in the region has this food shortage problem
Tue Apr 15, 2014, 10:08 AM
Apr 2014

Just goes to show the failure of the policies of the chavista government.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
10. No good reason for the shortages, either.
Tue Apr 15, 2014, 02:00 PM
Apr 2014

They have a wonderful climate, a willing workforce that could use some real jobs; there is so much they could produce at home so that they weren't a one-item economy.

They have so much treasure in the form of oil, they need to fix their equipment to maximize production, but they don't do that... they give too much of it away in exchange for head-nodding at OAS and really shitty advice (and a few doctors, paid slave wages, causing some to defect at their first opportunity) from Cuba, and they sell their oil to China for quick cash at prices as low as five bucks a barrel. No wonder they're in the shithouse--Maduro is like a sailor in the bar district after six months at sea; he's tossing his money about, spending foolishly like a drunk, and begging to be mugged.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
11. and its not like it wasn't tried before under socialist Carlos Andres Perez
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 09:53 AM
Apr 2014

an all oil economy and foreign policy. Ecuador also is an OPEC nation but has a diversified economy. Colombia also exports hydro carbons but also very diversified. chavista policies simply don't work.

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