Posted on 05/28/2016 7:18:58 AM PDT by dynachrome
The courts? Closed most days. The bureau to start a business? Same thing. The public defender’s office? That’s been converted into a food bank for government employees.
Step by step, Venezuela has been shutting down.
This country has long been accustomed to painful shortages, even of basic foods. But Venezuela keeps drifting further into uncharted territory.
In recent weeks, the government has taken what may be one of the most desperate measures ever by a country to save electricity: A shutdown of many of its offices for all but two half-days each week.
But that is only the start of the country’s woes. Electricity and water are being rationed, and huge areas of the country have spent months with little of either.
Many people cannot make international calls from their phones because of a dispute between the government and phone companies over currency regulations and rates.
Coca-Cola Femsa, the Mexican company that bottles Coke in the country, has even said it was halting production of sugary soft drinks because it was running out of sugar.
Last week, protests turned violent in parts of the country where demonstrators demanded empty supermarkets be resupplied. And on Friday, the government said it would continue its truncated workweek for an additional 15 days.
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Feel the Bern!
Venezuela is already dead.
The socialist regime is playing Weekend At Bernie’s with the corpse.
And the cause of death was entirely self-inflicted.
Berniezuela
Yep, exactly. Isn’t it telling that the press never seems to draw the obvious connection between their economic SYSTEM and their economic collapse?
Wonder what Bernie has to say about it?
Have they run out of Cats and Dogs ?
I guess I do not understand people, meaning the problems our very own country, and ones like Venezuela, voted for exactly what they got.
I bet there is a minority in Venezuela just like us at FR, just hating every moment of what’s going on, feeling so helpless. Fortunately we now have a chance, being Trump. But if a Trump version came along for Venezuela would they vote for him, or are they so brainwashed that socialism will work under the right leader?
Either they are stupid or smart and devious.
Tantrumnomics.
The best thing that could happen would be if the people come to realize that if they want to eat and live and thrive, they must not be dependent on the government or anyone else for free stuff.
This isn’t new territory, you fools. We’re covering old ground here. Just pick your commie country over the last 100 years and you have exactly what Venezuela is going through.
NYT: Socialism has nothing to do with Venezuela’s collapse.
“The growing economic crisis — fueled by low prices for oil, the country’s main export; a drought that has crippled Venezuela’s ability to generate hydroelectric power; and a long decline in manufacturing and agricultural production — has turned into an intensely political one for President Nicolás Maduro.”
In the New York Times article, the word socialism is never once mentioned.
Its like Venezuela went from rich and prosperous to a Third World cesspool due to economic mismanagement. Not to say the obvious about the corruption and theft of its Marxist elite that is never brought up by the writer.
A sorry excuse for journalism - but this is what we have come to expect from the New York Times.
Exactly. Wasn’t their economy booming just a few years ago?
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” M. Thatcher.
Some just cannot grasp that it has failed, ..every ...single...time.
“The public defender’s office? That’s been converted into a food bank for government employees.”
So government employees have their own food bank but not the poor public citizens. No doubt when the SHTF here, all US government employees probably will look after themselves leaving the rest of us peasants out.
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