Posted on 12/29/2014 4:30:36 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Famous Venezuelan ice-cream store closes over milk shortage
CARACAS - An ice-cream store listed in the Guinness World Records book for its 863 different flavours has become the latest victim of Venezuela's economic crisis.
"We are closed during the season due to shortage of milk," the famous Coromoto ice-cream store in the highland town of Merida announced on its Facebook page.
Locals confirmed that the shop, hugely popular among tourists for its exotic and strange flavours ranging from beer to beans, had been closed since Christmas Eve.
A sign on the door asked customers' forgiveness "for not attending you due to the lack of milk."
Venezuelans have been suffering acute shortages of basic goods, from toilet-paper to spare tires, all year due to an economic slowdown, the highest inflation in the Americas, and the impact of strict currency controls.
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yep. We are instant friends, mu neighbor and i.
The Bolsheviks called them "wreckers". They were largely fictitious but served to justify violence against pretty much anyone, including the only ones actually producing something.
It's a pretty simple model, really: a country enjoying widespread wealth, abundant natural resources, and a strong middle class is accosted by a demagogue and a team of agitators who inflame the resentful poor, increase the population of government dependents, impoverish the country, and blame somebody else. That is Venezuela's story and it is precisely what American progressives have in mind for our country. Oh, yes, and along the way the agitators get rich. Imagine that.
Yes!...That means u have to pay the government officials more money!....Don't you understand capitalism from a Marxist point of view????.../s
I guess Mickey Moore won't go back if there is no ice cream there. ;~))
i know how your neighbor feels.
Something just occured to me which begs for some research on my part.
Aren’t there some socialist scandi countries that depend heavily on oil revenue to support their systems?
I think there are. I wonder why we haven’t heard about them feeling the pinch yet? Perhaps because unlike Russia they aren’t under sanctions, and perhaps they have some lead time due to hedged pricing. Hmmmm.
Their economy is worse than Marxist, even their Marxism is dysfunctional.
I knew a wonderful Venezuelan Catholic girl in college. She went back and must be 55 now. Wonder how she’s doing?
me Too.
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