[PJ-Comix]

A scarcity of beer won’t go over well in Venezuela, a tropical country where per capita beer consumption is high. “I worry about shortages of food,” said Leo Parra, 28, who works in a Caracas store. “But if beer disappears, too, I’ll worry, too, because that’s a pleasure I like to enjoy.”

I've been to Venezuela and almost all adults drink Polar beer daily. And it's not just due to the heat. You CAN'T drink the water down there which is why you see NO water fountains. Not even in the airports. The best substitute is Polar beer and if that is not available...uh-oh!

[Scrambler Bob]

You can wipe with you hands.

But (no pun intended) no substitute for beer.

[Cicero]

Back in the USSR, the peasants managed to put up with Communist oppression and misrule by drinking lots of vodka. What will the Venezuelans do without their beer?

[11th Commandment]

About three years ago company stopped selling to Venezuela an essential agriculture product to produce chicken. Why, we couldn’t get USD! It is nice to see during this time that the government made USD available for beer, but not chicken. The priority of the socialist- keep the population dumb and drunk!

[PUGACHEV]

Polar Beer is good stuff. Even looking at the label with that polar bear standing on a ice flow makes you feel good on a hot day.

[KC_Lion]

No Bear and No TV Make Homer something something.

[Leaning Right]

Can't Venezuela's government just pass a law requiring the beer company to keep making beer anyway? After all, that's what socialist governments do best, making crazy laws that have no connection to reality.

[detective]

Limited electricity, no toilet paper and now no beer.

And a 5 hour wait in the hot sun to get into the grocery store.

This is what socialism is in real life.

[lurk]

When you vote for socialism, you get socialism.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I've been to Venezuela and almost all adults drink Polar beer daily

Just like Pittsburgh

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...

Do - the stuff that buys me beer
Ray - the guy who sells me beer
Me - the guy who drinks the beer
Fah - a long way to get beer
So - I think I'll have a beer
La - La la la la la beer
Ti - no thanks, I'm drinking beer,
Which will bring us back to - DOH!

[W.]

Would this be the place to plant a rumor that all Polar Beer shipments have been diverted to the ruling elite for their personal consumption? ;)

[Thibodeaux]

if they have no $ dollars, let them use ¥ yuan

[Thibodeaux]

if they have no $ dollars, let them use ¥ yuan