Posted on 04/05/2015 7:40:29 PM PDT by Kartographer
Venezuela's product shortages have become so severe that some hotels in that country are asking guests to bring their own toilet paper and soap, a local tourism industry spokesman said on Wednesday….
"It's an extreme situation," says Xinia Camacho, owner of a 20-room boutique hotel in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada national park. "For over a year we haven't had toilet paper, soap, any kind of milk, coffee or sugar. So we have to tell our guests to come prepared."…
Montilla says bigger hotels can circumvent product shortages by buying toilet paper and other basic supplies from black market smugglers who charge up to 6-times the regular price. But smaller, family-run hotels can't always afford to pay such steep prices, which means that sometimes they have to make do without.
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Venezuela has been reporting a lack of TP for months and months already.
Apparently, they’ve figured out some sort of alternative?
I have one of those little cylinder attachments for my Dremel tool that I use now and then.
80 grit?
Don’t they have corn cobs or leaves? The people of the old USSR used torn pages of PRAVDA and Cubans use GRANMA.
Shux, in the Middle East they just use the left hand, no paper!
Sean Penn should move to Venezuela, he loves Socialism, hey no worries Sean, if they don’t have any TP you can use your hand to wipe that fannie
In Russia, in the days of newspapers, not supplying toilet paper to the people served a purpose.
Since the government controlled the newspapers, not only did they sell better, but they got read better, sitting in the john would lead even non-readers to absorb a lot of propaganda and state fed information, articles, and headlines.
Socialists: full of shite and no TP.
Wasn’t it the envy of those with less that got them here? Now they are equally miserable but I bet the people at the top have their TP stash.
Not necessarily sharp sand, just whatever the wind has piled near your tent.
“...the final stage of socialism: no toilet paper.”
Nope, that’s the sign socialism is just hitting it’s stride!
This shit is about to get real.
A former Marine described how they had been taught to utilize every bit of the little TP packs in the MREs; he demonstrated how you would keep folding each piece.
Nasty...
Have to remember to stock up on TP, Sugar and Coffee =)
Not to worry though-all the elite politicians who promised to make everyone equal and take other people's money away to give to you-have plenty of TP and everything else-they get the good stuff because they know what's best for you- You need to live with less. Yaye Socialism!
ahhh yes, the concentrated blessings of socialism...
Step Brothers: running out to TP scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qLWnEVhpBU
This shortage is an obvious plot of reactionary, counterrevolutionary forces to discredit the government.
It is good that some Venezuelan hospitality providers are able to mitigate this problem by acquiring toilet paper on the black market. I wonder if Xinia Camacho is able to do that. Or perhaps there is a market for used toilet paper.
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