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With Venezuelan Cupboards Bare, Some Blame Price Controls - chairman - 04-21-2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — By 6:30 a.m., a full hour and a half before the store would open, about two dozen people were already in line. They waited patiently, not for the latest iPhone, but for something far more basic: groceries
Re: With Venezuelan Cupboards Bare, Some Blame Price Controls - chairman - 04-21-2012
Venezuela is one of the world’s top oil producers at a time of soaring energy prices, yet shortages of staples like milk, meat and toilet paper are a chronic part of life here, often turning grocery shopping into a hit or miss proposition.
Some residents arrange their calendars around the once-a-week deliveries made to government-subsidized stores like this one, lining up before dawn to buy a single frozen chicken before the stock runs out. Or a couple of bags of flour. Or a bottle of cooking oil.
Re: With Venezuelan Cupboards Bare, Some Blame Price Controls - Kwami - 04-21-2012
propaganda by the empire with collusion by the zionist owned media , dont you believe it
Re: With Venezuelan Cupboards Bare, Some Blame Price Controls - Snoopster - 04-21-2012
Substitute "Venezuela" with "Detroit, Michigan" and the story becomes far more accurate. :yeti:
Re: With Venezuelan Cupboards Bare, Some Blame Price Controls - Kwami - 04-21-2012
Re: With Venezuelan Cupboards Bare, Some Blame Price Controls - mapoui - 04-21-2012
there is no food shortage in venezueala. full stop!