VZ update: From people ON THE GROUND

April 26, 2018 at 12:01 pm
"Update from the east of the country.

Hunger is REALLY setting in here. There’s virtually no cash in the streets, and for the little there is, there’s almost nothing to buy. We can’t process corn fast enough for the demand right now. Many customers who used to buy 1 or 2 kilos at a time are now requesting 10, 20, or even 50 to 100 kilos. They see the writing on the wall…….there’s hardly any corn left in town, nothing new arriving, and they want to buy and hold for the months ahead. If there’s a harvest this year, that won’t occur until November at the earliest.

Bread, cheese, rice, flour, processed corn meal, sugar, coffee, cooking oil and MOST FRESH VEGETABLES are now history as well. My woman just returned from Maturin taking care of family business and looking for supplies. She told me she couldn’t find a single potato in Maturin, not one. We’re talking about a city of (at least till recently) of 500,000 people or more. Oh, and the guy who takes care of the house we still have there told her he is quitting the country as well. We’ll sell it if we can find a buyer for the place and unload it.

With all this good news, Maduro should have this election in the bag."