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Away from Caracas, shortages even worse in Venezuela
AFP via Yahoo News ^ | 8/17/15 | Away from Caracas, shortages even worse in Venezuela

Posted on 08/18/2015 8:07:48 AM PDT by Kartographer

All the lady wanted was some chicken. But in shortage-plagued Venezuela, she waited in line five hours, only to go home empty-handed.

"I got here at 5:30 am and came away with nothing! It is just not fair that you have to work so hard -- and then put up with these lines," said an exasperated Lileana Diaz, a 49-year-old receptionist at a hospital emergency room.

Venezuelans have been enduring shortages of the most basic goods, such as toilet paper, for more than a year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chesparadise; communism; communist; otherpeoplesmoney; socialism; utopia
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To: grumpygresh

I started to reread it again too.


41 posted on 08/18/2015 2:05:42 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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