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June 23, 2016 ... crisis, caused by Venezuela’s worst drought in 47 years , and extremely low electricity rates, which led ... on Fridays. Electricity rationing, which occurs for three hours a day on a rotating schedule in interior states ... electricity is and has been available for twenty-one hours a day in these areas), remains in effect during the ...

May 20, 2016 ... onto the black market. From the family that queues for hours and then re-sells some of what they’ve bought, to the ... to criminal gangs who hire people to queue for hours and buy whatever subsidised products are available ... it over and hand it to the communal power”. Less than 48 hours later, in an interview with Reuters, the vice-president ...

October 10, 2016 ... First, you have the popular sectors waiting on lines for hours and hours but they are able to buy goods that they need because ... I’m not denying that those lines are sometimes 4, 5, 6 hours which is a terrible situation. I’m not denying the ...

October 27, 2016 ... economy for some time now. Shortages of food and medicine, hours-long lines for basic goods, incomes eroded by ... from arbitrage of some sort -- from waiting in line for hours for a small allocation of subsidized food and reselling ...

June 13, 2016 ... lawns to plant food with my neighboring children. Two more hours and I”ll be up with the dawn, awaiting Fabi and ...

June 15, 2016 ... facing Venezuela, ranging from triple-digit inflation to hours-long lines to purchase basic goods—not to mention ...

August 10, 2016 ... were depicted on the walls of the military and after three hours, at 9 PM, he was still talking, until somebody ...

July 13, 2016 ... at government-controlled prices; citizens must spend hours queuing, or resort to the black market, where the same ...