Now it’s serious! Venezuela is almost out of beer

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6608935/2015/07/08/venezuela-beer-shortage
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Members of the Sintraterricentro union downed tools last week at two bottling plants belonging to the Polar brewery. It supplies roughly 80 percent of Venezuela’s beer, including market leader Polar Pilsen. The union is tiny but its members hold key positions at the plant, meaning that production has ground to a halt.

The nation's human rights ombudsman has stepped in to mediate. But Empresa Polar executives accuse him of a bias toward the union, which is allied with the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro.

On top of that, there's a shortage of imported beer ingredients.

Add that to the list of basics in short supply, like medicines and food items, thanks to a raft of economic problems including a lack of dollars.