Latin America
Related: About this forumVenezuela rationing food to combat shortages
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2014/04/venezuela-rationing-food-combat-shortages-201448115655369925.htmlDue 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.
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)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)pro-USA, propaganda outlet.
It's getting harder and harder to polish this turd.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)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)has become. That's the legacy.
MADem
(135,425 posts)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)Just goes to show the failure of the policies of the chavista government.
MADem
(135,425 posts)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)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.