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Production of Coke halted in Venezuela for lack of sugar
Yahoo FInance ^

Posted on 05/23/2016 3:32:18 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

May 23 (Reuters) - The Venezuelan bottler of Coca-Cola has halted production of sugar-sweetened beverage due to a lack of sugar, a Coca-Cola Co spokeswoman said on Monday.

Venezuela is in the midst of a deep recession, and spontaneous demonstrations and looting have become more common amid worsening food shortages, frequent power cuts and the world's highest inflation.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: coke; communism; cuba; economics; feelthebern; hugochavez; inflation; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; poweroutages; russia; shortage; shortages; socialism; soda; sugar; venezuela
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1 posted on 05/23/2016 3:32:18 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
Venezuelan Army! A nation turns its lonely eyes to you:


2 posted on 05/23/2016 3:34:44 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (We cannot allow Hillary Clinton to become the next Angela Merkel)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Venezuela is in the midst of a deep recession,”

????
Venezuela is in the midst of feeling the Bern, right up front and in their face.


3 posted on 05/23/2016 3:34:48 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Red in Blue PA

The 1971 Coke song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q


4 posted on 05/23/2016 3:36:49 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

“I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
But I can’t because there’s no food here in Venezuela and I had to eat my cat and I’m wiping my behind with leaves.
It’s the real thing!”


5 posted on 05/23/2016 3:39:54 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Red in Blue PA

A deep recession?

Trying, yet again, to slip a rubber peach to a gullible child.

It’s in a evil, failed communist revolution that will take years - and piles of dead bodies - to climb out of.


6 posted on 05/23/2016 3:40:21 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Red in Blue PA

“Venezuela is in the midst of a deep recession”

Yeah, “recession” that’s it.


7 posted on 05/23/2016 3:45:36 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: miss marmelstein

yeah— Yahoo isn’t biased are they-

The current citizens of Venezuela:

A. Are on WATER rationing- every other day!
B. Electricity rationing- Whenever!
C. Toilet paper HOARDING is an Arrest-able offense
D. they beer distillery’s are now in SHUTdown mode!
E. now NO Soda-

Yeah sounds like a “recession” to me

sarc


8 posted on 05/23/2016 3:46:13 PM PDT by mj1234
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To: Red in Blue PA

First they run outta beer. Now Coke??? They are literally feelin’ the Bern.


9 posted on 05/23/2016 3:48:06 PM PDT by Zarro (This tagline space available for rent)
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To: Red in Blue PA
I wonder what a sugarless Coke would taste like. Not into sweet stuff. No sugar and double the caffeine? 🏇 Giddyup
10 posted on 05/23/2016 3:49:58 PM PDT by BiggerTigger
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To: BiggerTigger

Don’t they have Stevia plants there?


11 posted on 05/23/2016 3:51:41 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: mj1234

Unbelievable. I know I’m paranoid but I do believe this could happen to us if we’re not careful and don’t develop a conscience and morality in our young people.


12 posted on 05/23/2016 3:52:40 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Zarro

I heard that a company has started production again - except both the beer and the coke are green in color.


13 posted on 05/23/2016 3:56:39 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

When I left the army and went into business (no small transition) my first personal assistant was from Chile. Going to school at night, working with me during the day. I asked her during the initial interview what she thought vis-à-vis Pinochet vs. Allende. Without batting an eye she said “Viva Pinochet!”. She graduated school, moved to San Antonio, has her own title insurance business, one son is an architect in Dallas, the other is running a Sam’s Club. Both do over 6 figures, as does she. Quality matters.


14 posted on 05/23/2016 4:01:13 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.)
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To: Zarro

There’s Maduro’s key mistake right there: even in the worst depths of 1950’s Soviet planned-economy communist privations, the apparchitiks made sure there was a steady supply of vodka in the USSR, sliwowice in Poland and beer in East Germany & Czechoslovakia. You have to give the proles some means of escape from their misery. It’s the lack of beer that will bring this situation to a head.


15 posted on 05/23/2016 4:11:02 PM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Half-brother is Watching You!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Don’t worry. Maduro’s relatives and some of the military have enough coke to keep the nation happy for a long time.

Oh, the article was talking about Coca Cola. Sorry!


16 posted on 05/23/2016 4:19:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: lump in the melting pot

From “One, Two, Three”

Peripetchikoff: No formula, NO DEAL!
C.R. MacNamara: OK, NO DEAL!
Borodenko: We do not need you! If we want Coca-cola, we invent it ourselves!
C.R. MacNamara: Oh, yeah? In 1956 you flew a bottle of Coke to a secret laboratory in Sverdlosk. A dozen of your top chemists went nuts trying to analyze the ingredients. Right?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: And in 1958, you planted two undercover agents in Atlanta to steal the formula. And what happened? They both defected! And now they’re successful businessmen in Florida packaging instant borscht. Right?
Peripetchikoff: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: Last year you put out a cockamamie imitation “Kremlin-Kola!” You tried it out in the satellite countries, but even the Albanians wouldn’t drink it. They used it for SHEEP DIP! RIGHT?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: So either get down to business or get off the pot!


17 posted on 05/23/2016 4:20:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: polymuser

RE Stevia plants. They are using them for toilet paper.


18 posted on 05/23/2016 4:21:12 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: headstamp 2

They doin’ the Obameconomy doublespeak.


19 posted on 05/23/2016 4:22:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Leftists make me sick, people are starving, rioting, no medical services open and it’s OLNY A DEEP RECSSION


20 posted on 05/23/2016 4:23:14 PM PDT by stockpirate (Flush Limbaigh a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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