...as the Marxist economics begun under the Chavez regime and continued after his death. After all, it's hard to buy food and even toilet paper in Nicolas Maduro's worker's paradise: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/sep/26/venezuela-food-shortages-rich-country-cia:
This time, however, food shortages have gone on for almost a year and certain items long gone from the shelves are hitting a particular nerve with Venezuelans. Toilet paper, rice, coffee, and cornflour, used to make arepas, Venezuela's national dish, have become emblematic of more than just an economic crisis.
"We used to produce rice and we had excellent coffee; now we produce nothing. With the situation here people abandoned the fields," says Jesus Lopez, in reference to government-seized land that sits idle. "Empty shelves and no one to explain why a rich country has no food. It's unacceptable," adds the 90-year-old farmer from San Cristobal, on the western state of Tachira, bordering Colombia.
Venezuela's real shortage seems to be one of capitalism...

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