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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yea I just saw that.
typical leftist tool he is...
Yea...
WHY ISN’T EVERYBODY WORKING FOR FREE For THE COMMON GOOD?
baking the bread, fixing the shoes, growing the tomatoes, running the hydroelectric plant.....
C’mon man IT TAKES A VILLAGE!
sheesh
I laugh at the malignant socialists and those who voted for them. They deserve their chosen fate. Bwaaaaaaaahahaha...
Scheming capitalists at work again.
I fear you’re right...
That’s what I’m sayin’! All of these people want everyone to be equal so everyone of them should be willing to work for the same wage! Zero! Then they’d all have electricity and bread and water and toilette paper.
Venezuela had elections and the opposition to Maduro has a large majority in National Assembly. Maduro is doing some tricks to block the assembly and rule by decree.
Likely the latter.
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