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Scarcity and Starvation? Venezuelan Food FAQs
October 5, 2013 ... 7: Is it “normal” for Venezuelans to spend four hours waiting in line to do their shopping? Short answer: As ... BBC Radio 4 viewers have been led to believe, waiting five hours in line at a supermarket is not “normal”. Lines at ... mostly consisting of once weekly shopping trips. Four hours isn't impossible, but anecdotal evidence from myself ... -
Are the Military Occupations of Stores Evidence that the Venezuelan Government is Descending into Tyranny?
November 20, 2013 ... bolívares (US$668 at the CADIVI rate) were being sold at 47,000 (US$7470). Thus dollars earned through oil sales at ... -
We’re Not Going to Allow Shortages or Messing with Prices
February 25, 2013 ... [A Venezuelan department store closed by Indepabis for 72 hours last week] We made a first visit there and we decided ... -
Venezuela's Petrol Price Debate
December 19, 2013 ... unnecessary, and worse, leaving cars and buses running for hours while they aren’t being used. Though an awareness ... -
An Interview with the Head of the High Commission for the People’s Defence of the Economy
October 21, 2013 ... people that don’t even eat chicken. Then in two or three hours the stock runs out, and so the people that go to the ... -
Devaluation, Consumerism, and the Media
February 11, 2013 ... Asia, often children, have to work in sweatshops for 16 hours a day or more, with zero labor stability and absurdly ... -
Venezuela: Focusing on Disaster by Ignoring the Facts
October 17, 2013 When does or when has the corporate media published anything positive or encouraging about Venezuela’s economic performance? The short answer is hardly ever and currently they are having a field day pointing out all the economic troubles being suffered by the Venezuelan people . -
The Scarcity Diaries
November 6, 2013 ... intense – I remember well being in the main plaza a few hours after Chavez died. I remember the hugging, and seeing ...