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Beer Becomes the Latest Scarcity in a Venezuela Crippled by Shortages
Wall Street Journal ^
| April 29, 2016
| JUAN FORERO and MAYELA ARMAS
Posted on 04/30/2016 2:57:13 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
CARACAS, Venezuela—The largest private Venezuelan company and producer of 80% of the beer consumed here began to shut down its last beer plant on Friday, the latest deprivation in a country crippled by shortages.
After Empresas Polar SA closed its three other beer plants over the past several days, the shutting of the San Joaquin plant, near Valencia, will leave just a week’s supply of beer, the company said. Like many other firms here, Polar blames the government, which hasn’t allocated the dollars the company needs to pay for imported raw materials such as malted barley.
President Nicolás Maduro’s government controls access to dollars, doling them out via a stringent currency exchange in which many companies find it hard to pay suppliers abroad.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: beer; chavistas; cuba; empresaspolar; hugochavez; hugochavezlegacy; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; russia; venezuela
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Venezuela is expected to completely run out of beer in a week. They will go nuts down there because you can't drink the water and cold beer is highly popular due to the tropical heat.
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posted on
04/30/2016 2:57:13 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Wait! Beer?
Ooo, them’s some fightin words!
Communism, enemy to beer!
Now they’ve gone and done it!
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posted on
04/30/2016 2:59:03 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(regurgitateTED)
To: PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
There are probably people who were proactive enough to buy the parts for stills. They will be fine. The rest, not so much.
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posted on
04/30/2016 2:59:30 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Democrats hate too much
This will be America if Bernie is elected! The RNC should run ads :)
To: PJ-Comix
Someone get Sean Penn, he can take care of it.
To: DoughtyOne
“When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.”
L
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:04:46 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Lurker
Great line!
Isn’t it the truth.
Remember those long lines from the U.S.S.R. for such luxuries during the Cold War.
That brings back memories...
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:06:07 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(regurgitateTED)
To: PJ-Comix
In Socialism, people wait for beer. In Capitalism, beer waits for people.
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:06:20 PM PDT
by
Bernard
(The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
To: DoughtyOne
Even the commies in the Soviet Union were smart enough to keep the vodka flowing. President Manure-o is a common street thug that’s too stupid to even do that.
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:10:04 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PJ-Comix
Oh crap! Wait until Bernie supporters get wind of this. One of the outcomes of real socialism is NOT FREE BEER but NO BEER.
Yikes!
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:11:45 PM PDT
by
HotHunt
To: PJ-Comix
Q: What did socialists use for light before candles?
A: Electricity.
To: PJ-Comix
Things are bout to get series.
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:13:23 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: PJ-Comix
Confidential to Bernie ...
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:13:45 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("He's a winner in the process of winning. People like that." Scott Adams)
To: PJ-Comix
Venezuela is a textbook example of the abject failure of socialism. This story should be on those old 8mm projection films in every classroom.
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:16:08 PM PDT
by
normbal
(normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:16:36 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
To: PJ-Comix
Someone should tell the kids in college about this....I mean those who think capitalism is no good and socialism is better.
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:17:31 PM PDT
by
Aria
(2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
To: PJ-Comix
No country is more than three beers away from revolution.
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:18:30 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: PJ-Comix
Socialism without beer?
That’s bloody communism!
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posted on
04/30/2016 3:19:28 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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