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Venezuela’s Empresas Polar May Have to Stop Making Beer Because of Dollar Shortage
Wall Street Journal ^
| April 21, 2016
| JUAN FORERO
Posted on 04/22/2016 12:11:44 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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A scarcity of beer wont go over well in Venezuela, a tropical country where per capita beer consumption is high. I worry about shortages of food, said Leo Parra, 28, who works in a Caracas store. But if beer disappears, too, Ill worry, too, because thats a pleasure I like to enjoy.
I've been to Venezuela and almost all adults drink Polar beer daily. And it's not just due to the heat. You CAN'T drink the water down there which is why you see NO water fountains. Not even in the airports. The best substitute is Polar beer and if that is not available...uh-oh!
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:11:44 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
You can wipe with you hands.
But (no pun intended) no substitute for beer.
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:15:00 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
To: PJ-Comix
Back in the USSR, the peasants managed to put up with Communist oppression and misrule by drinking lots of vodka. What will the Venezuelans do without their beer?
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:15:21 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: PJ-Comix
About three years ago company stopped selling to Venezuela an essential agriculture product to produce chicken. Why, we couldn’t get USD! It is nice to see during this time that the government made USD available for beer, but not chicken. The priority of the socialist- keep the population dumb and drunk!
To: PJ-Comix
Polar Beer is good stuff. Even looking at the label with that polar bear standing on a ice flow makes you feel good on a hot day.
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:19:11 PM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: Cicero
It’s the Polar light beer that is most favored down there. Good stuff. And really appreciated in the tropical heat. Cut that off and the folks might take to the streets.
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:19:13 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix; GraceG; Homer_J_Simpson
No Bear and No TV Make Homer something something.
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:26:03 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Everyone Does Know that after the Last Brokered Republican Convention, They Lost, Right?)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:29:25 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
To: PJ-Comix
Can't Venezuela's government just pass a law requiring the beer company to keep making beer anyway? After all, that's what socialist governments do best, making crazy laws that have no connection to reality.
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:29:44 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: KC_Lion
Homer: No Bear and No TV Make Homer something something.
Marge: Go Crazy?
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:30:28 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
To: GraceG
Instead of malt and barley, use tree bark and grass.
Won’t do squat, but at least it gives the government the ability to say the beer is now better and that it no longer needs imported goods. Maybe give a medal to the apparatchik who suggested this.
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posted on
04/22/2016 12:34:49 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(United we stand, divided we fall. I think the establishment has divided us enough.)
To: PJ-Comix
Limited electricity, no toilet paper and now no beer.
And a 5 hour wait in the hot sun to get into the grocery store.
This is what socialism is in real life.
To: PJ-Comix
When you vote for socialism, you get socialism.
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posted on
04/22/2016 1:29:10 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: PJ-Comix
I've been to Venezuela and almost all adults drink Polar beer daily
Just like Pittsburgh
To: lurk
From the land of sky blue waters...
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posted on
04/22/2016 2:00:33 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Just like Pittsburgh....You’re talking Vitamin I, I hope. (Iron City).
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posted on
04/22/2016 2:10:47 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: PJ-Comix
Hmm...
Do - the stuff that buys me beer
Ray - the guy who sells me beer
Me - the guy who drinks the beer
Fah - a long way to get beer
So - I think I'll have a beer
La - La la la la la beer
Ti - no thanks, I'm drinking beer,
Which will bring us back to - DOH!
To: PJ-Comix
Would this be the place to plant a rumor that all Polar Beer shipments have been diverted to the ruling elite for their personal consumption? ;)
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posted on
04/22/2016 2:14:50 PM PDT
by
W.
(Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
To: PJ-Comix
if they have no $ dollars, let them use ¥ yuan
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posted on
04/22/2016 2:15:23 PM PDT
by
Thibodeaux
(leading from behind is following)
To: Safetgiver
You know it. Can’t drink that Rolling Rock now that
it’s made with New Jersey water.
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