Posted on 02/07/2014 4:25:16 PM PST by Kartographer
This is a public service announcement for readers living in Venezuela: you may be running out of food within a month. I know that because I have heard through my clients and business partners that the regime has been holding reunions frantically to try to negotiate, at least with the food sectors, a minimum package so some basic stuff is produced while the regime comes up with some new cockamamie plan. The common feeling from those I spoke to is that the regime has little idea of what to do. The regime spokescreeps, in a wonderful case of military self sufficiency, went as far as suggesting casually that we should negotiate (blackmail?) with our providers to accept a cut in our debt... and have them keep sending us stuff anyway (sigh!)
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I hear it!
recently?
on-going
Here’s an idea to re-establish the food supply: get the hell out of everybody’s way!
Welcome to communism!
There’s always corncobs, but according to this article, Venezuelans are going be rather short on those, too.
You clearly aren’t on Kartographer’s ping list, or aren’t taking it seriously, else you’d already have that covered!
So just one of my 48 roll packs would go for around $400? How much in gold?? LOL!
In Germany it’s indistinguishable from sandpaper. Seriously, if you go, take your own.
well, someone posted the black market rate was $8
A little plastic spray bottle can be used like a bidet.
Just saying.
Corrupt but decent. I remember riding my skateboard to the bodega before dawn to buy a quart of milk for breakfast. Milk spoiled so fast because of the heat that you bought it daily.
Later I learned that when the police pulled me over that it saved everyone time if I just tucked 50bs in my papers when I handed them over. And that should tell people how long ago it was that I lived there
they use a lot of powdered milk now, when they can find it
You left the tap on so when the water came on (for some reason just when you were sleeping nicely it would come on) you would hear it. The cry of "Agua" (Water!) made everyone jump up and run around filling up the water storage barrels, flushing the toilets and, if you were lucky, having a chance to jump in the shower and get cleaned up.
Good times.
I read some Venezuela blogs, not much has changed apparently, except its the same way with electricity
Sean Penn: “Venezuela and its revolution will endure...”
I’d pay for a 1-way ticket for him to go & ‘help’ and not come back...
I figured they’d have a lot of leftover pictures of Chavez to use.
Plant corn kernals. Follow the bees that come to pollinate back to their hive for honey. Use the honey on your bee stings. Harvest corn. Leave two to mature for seed kernals (of course most corn is now gmo/hybrid so may not germinate). Use the stalks to grow beans. Save the husks for tamales, a new mattress and dolls. The silks make a medicinal tea. Make a corn feeder to attract birds. Enjoy a dinner of pheasant under glass with a side of polenta. Make corn cob jelly. Use the cobs for backside cleanage. Use the now dried stalks for a fire and used cobs for fertilizer.
Ok, I’ll admit I just don’t understand a bidet. How do you keep from getting your clothes wet? And I’d never get my backside dried and down my legs without totally disrobing and using a bath towel. And probably have to wipe off my shoes and the floor. Then I’d still have to use tp to clean my bum so I wouldn’t have skid marks on the undies. Seems like a whole lot of excess time and effort and you’d still have to reach for the tp roll. I must be missing something.
http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/140207/toyota-de-venezuela-halts-production-indefinitely
Toyota in Venezuela shutting down due to lack of supplies
Car manufacturing in Venezuela down about 85%
http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/140204/car-manufacturing-in-venezuela-slumps-8478
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