Public service announcement: get ready to starve in Venezuela

daniel-venezuela.blogspot ^ | 2/7/14 | Daniel

[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!)

[GeronL]

“We will expropriate whatever...” Maduro vows

http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/140205/venezuelas-maduro-well-expropriate-whatever-needs-to-be-expropriated

“We will expropriate whatever needs to be expropriated,” Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro cautioned in reference to the new Law of Costs and Fair Prices.

Concomitantly, the president urged private companies to comply with the new law. His statements came during the commemoration of the coup attempt of February 4, 1992.

The Venezuelan president threatened to take “the most radical measures to protect our people’s economy.”

“I make an appeal to the country economic sectors, for work and self-regulation of commodities and prices. You have time until next Monday; otherwise, I will take the most radical measures,” Maduro specified.

“I am determined to make an economic revolution. Nobody, nothing will stop me!” he said.

[PapaBear3625]

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.

In rural Europe, you have water tanks on the roof. When water comes on, the tank fills. You can then use the water through the day. Hopefully you get more water before the tank runs dry.