A woman in the line shows the number written on her arm (Gustavo Bandres)
http://www.eluniversal.com/opinion/150112/the-terrifying-reality
“The Terrifying Reality” op-ed in the El Universal
excerpt:
Seeing empty supermarkets and grocery stores, comrade, and getting an “out of stock” as usual reply when asking for essential goods cause nostalgia, anxiety, despair, and frustration among the citizens.
The same negative reply is heard in grocery stores, fruit shops, butcher’s shops, pharmacies, spare parts stores, tire shops, hardware stores, dry cleaners, bakeries, book stores, appliance stores, clothing and footwear stores, electronics stores, and any other stores where mass consumption products are sold. The “we do not have it” reply is also common in medical and dental practices, public and private hospitals, which are currently hit by lack of equipment, supplies, and specialized staff to properly take care of patients.
Someone call the Department of Happiness Director.
He will get it straightened out.
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/06/260119015/venezuelas-department-of-happiness-criticized
Venezuela is turning into North Korea right before our eyes.
Those that implement socialism are guilty of crimes against humanity. Maduro is getting in trouble because he is running out of the hard currency he needs to pay the goons and thugs that suppress the people.
You voted for it Venezuela.
Enjoy it.
Coming to a neighborhood near you, one suspects there that long waits will happen with long lines (and declined service) for inferior healthcare under Obamacare [sic].
This is the familiar refrain of the low information voter, the gibsmedats voter, and the rest of the idiots who vote in those who steal from the productive and give, for votes, to the envious and lazy.
This statement will be heard in this country, in the not to distant future.
Buyers had numbers written on their arms.
Where does it say you’ll have to have a number to buy and sell? Mmmmmm. Oh, I know! The Bible!
Sure there's choice. Try free market capitalism, just like you neighbor Chile did. Now it's the fastest growing economy in the world.
They need to overthrow their dictator.
Reminds me of the old Reagan joke:
“The party official asks a farmer how things are going, and the farmer replies that the harvest is so bountiful that the potatoes would reach the ‘foot of God’ if piled on top of one another.”
” ‘But this is the Soviet Union,’’ says the commissar, ‘there is no God here.’ The farmer replies, ‘That’s all right, there are no potatoes, either.’”
Where is Venezuela’s Pinochet?
Obama's drooling over that one. He's thinking we need an Obama Ministry of Food and a Food Czar.
When Kruschev visited the U.S. the one thing that impressed him most was: supermarkets! “How do you control this?!” he asked. The answer: “We don’t.”
“”No matter if I am very fond of this government, this is not fair,” a consumer said waiting in a line, where she spent seventeen hours.”
WOW!
Even when the situation gets this bad people don’t wake up. It’s always amazed me how much people will put up with before they rebel.
It worked in Cambodia. Why wouldn't it work in Venezuela?
The proverbial “You reap what you sow” scenario in full executable mode. You asked for Chaves/Maduro, so the needle on my give a damn meter hasn’t budged.
Further, the minister stated that there is over 600 tons of food in state-run marketing networks to meet demand.
Put in perspective, Von Paulus' army at Stalingrad needed close to 1000 tons of supplies a day, at least 1/3-1/2 of that as food, to maintain a basic edge (which the Luftwaffe couldn't supply). That was a dwindling 300,000. Caracas' urban area is about 3.2 million...