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Latin America

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts) Sat Jan 19, 2019, 04:46 AM Jan 2019

Venezuelan gas vice-minister says, "Let them eat cake!"

Yazmin Ramirez, Deputy Minister of Gas, when informed that the people of Venezuela were cooking with wood instead of liquid propane, in the nation with the largest reserves of oil ON THE PLANET

Link to tweet

" And if that's what people have to cook with firewood, (...) they get used to the wood and the stove, we have a presidential order. Give the necessary gas to Trinidad and Tobago and Cuba"...

It certainly explains WHO is running Venezuela these days.

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