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People line up to buy toilet paper and baby diapers as national guards
control the access at a supermarket in downtown Caracas January 19,
2015. There’s a booming new profession in Venezuela: standing in line.
The job usually involves starting before dawn, enduring long hours under
the Caribbean sun, dodging or bribing police, and then selling a
coveted spot at the front of huge shopping lines. As Venezuela’s ailing
economy spawns unprecedented shortages of basic goods, panic-buying and a
rush to snap up subsidized food, demand is high and the pay is
reasonable. Picture taken January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
I was in the supermarket the other day pre-snowpacalypse and all eyes were rolling and looking at each other with nasty looks when the woman holding up the line took out her 'benefits' card wasn't working"
Crime is already a problem on
Venezuela's roads and in its shops, and now trucks carrying food across
the country are a target as shortages of basics like flour and chicken
worsen.
A restriction on dollars
for imports has worsened shortages since the start of the new year and
food delivery has become increasingly risky, despite additions of GPS
devices and in some cases accompaniment by private security guards.
"I won't transport food
anymore because the streets are too dangerous," said Orlando Garcia, a
37-year-old driver from the western state of Tachira who has been
ambushed twice.
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Yes, this will get here too, on purpose. I firmly believe the weather is being
ReplyDeletemanipulated by you know who, the droughts, the hotter than normal fires,
the flooding, the sun being covered by a film, the heavy wet snow.. The shelves being emptied prior to a big snow storm has been the norm for a few yrs. Chooses have decreased. The Venezuela gov. is also controlling the food distribution just
like Africa. Also, commissaries are low on food.
I wouldn't discount anything these days.
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