Hungry Venezuelans sleep in endless grocery lines as food shortage crisis worsens
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, January 22, 2015
As socialist government deepens in Venezuela, economic conditions continue to worsen for the Venezuelan people — and the government leaders continue to deny that their policies are to blame.
So bad, now, is the economy that the government has deployed the military — the military — to ensure that anxious, hungry and needy citizens don’t over-indulge at stores (when they actually have merchandise and food, which is increasingly rare).
As reported by Bloomberg News recently, shoppers mobbed grocery stores in the capital of Caracas amid ongoing, worsening food and commodities shortages, leading the government to place food distribution under military control.
Bloomberg News further reported on conditions in the capital city:
Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken.
“At this point I’ll buy whatever I can”
“I’ve visited six stores already today looking for detergent — I can’t find it anywhere,” Lisbeth Elsa, a 27-year-old janitor, told the news service while waiting in line outside a supermarket in eastern Caracas. “We’re wearing our dirty clothes again because we can’t find it. At this point I’ll buy whatever I can find.”
Pictures of near-empty store shelves tell the story of the worsening economic crisis in the South American nation.
A combination of economic factors has all contributed to Venezuela’s disintegration — a lack of foreign capital and declining oil prices among them — but the country’s socialist economic policies are at the root of every problem.
There are shortages of virtually everything, from car batteries to toilet paper — even McDonald’s french fries. Annual inflation rose to 64 percent in November.
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