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Title: Where are the ‘empty shelves’? Max Blumenthal tours Caracas supermarket (VIDEO)
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URL Source: https://www.rt.com/news/452158-blum ... venezuela-supermarket-shelves/
Published: Feb 22, 2019
Author: Max Blumenthal
Post Date: 2019-02-22 10:03:49 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 293
Comments: 6

Corporate media grieve for the barren shelves and empty bellies in Venezuela, but are the alleged food shortages real? After touring a supermarket in Caracas, Max Blumenthal found plenty to buy – even craft beer.

“Grocery shelves lie empty as food becomes increasingly scarce” in Venezuela, the UK Independent weeps. The country’s shops remain open but “sparsely stocked,” The Guardian laments. Even “basic commodities” such as toothbrushes aren’t available for purchase, CNN bemoans. “Hungry” Venezuelans must choose between “torture or starvation,” Bloomberg grimly concludes. Mainstream media coverage of Venezuela gives the impression that President Nicolas Maduro is slowly starving his own people – a narrative which, as journalist Max Blumenthal found after surveying a massive supermarket in Caracas, is wildly deceptive. © Youtube / Grayzone Project

The store offered a wide selection of meat, produce, and dairy (although no low-fat Greek yogurt, an indignity which is likely the result of Maduro’s tyrannical ways, Blumenthal jokingly hypothesizes). Most importantly, craft beer – a hallmark of heroic consumerism – could be found in the supermarket’s alcohol aisle.

Blumenthal also marveled at the store’s huge variety of scented toilet paper, shampoo and toiletries – the “basic commodities” which, according to CNN, are nowhere to be found in Venezuela. © Youtube / Grayzone Project

“There isn’t an issue here with food distribution or food scarcity,” Blumenthal concludes. “The issue is the buying power of Venezuelans has been completely destroyed because their currency has been so badly weakened by hyperinflation, speculation and the flood of dollars that the government can’t control here, as well as hoarding by private capitalist elements that support the opposition.” Also on rt.com Venezuela closes border with Brazil, may do the same at Colombia border – Maduro

The amusing bit of on-the-ground reporting comes amid a tense stand-off over US attempts to deliver what Washington describes as humanitarian aid into Venezuela, in defiance of the wishes of its government. Juan Guaido, the US-backed, self-declared “interim president” of Venezuela, said on Thursday that he will personally go to the border with Colombia to get the shipment from the US, urging drivers to go with him and defy the border guards ordered to prevent the delivery.

Humanitarian organizations have distanced themselves from the alleged aid package, amid accusations that the “humanitarian aid” could contain military equipment, or be used for political purposes.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

Interesting, and I'm all for counterviews and getting at the truth, but personally know a family that has fled Venezuela, and I even assisted them after their 3 day bus journey out of the country, which they say included extortion to allow their teen-age daughters to pass the V border. The father says he has lost friends who have died in the protest activities.

Pinguinite  posted on  2019-02-22   10:52:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)

Don't expect to get the truth from Sydney Blumethal's kid.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2019-02-22   10:59:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ada (#0) (Edited)

I've seen a mother crying here in America when fuel prices spiked up. Her small children were in the car and she was worried about more than being able to get them home without running out of gas that time. It was the expectance of the markup for that industry's profiteers making every day more difficult for low-income people + all other expenses impacted by that being made less affordable, as well. Are the reportedly poor, starving people of Venezuela being used by market profiteers as a humanitarian crisis that requires higher prices for Venezuela's oil? If so, reference the Yellow Jacket/Vest protests in Europe over exorbitant fuel costs/taxation, etc., because the wages and fixed incomes for most people tend to be negatively affected by the rich and powerful simply becoming more rich and powerful.

Archiving: Venezuela's Meltdown Comes At Convenient Time For OPEC - forbes.com | Mar 12, 2018

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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC

GreyLmist  posted on  2019-02-22   18:50:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: GreyLmist (#3)

I've seen a mother crying here in America when fuel prices spiked up. Her small children were in the car and she was worried about more than being able to get them home without running out of gas that time.

Easy to forget that Venezuela donated free oil to thousands of poor US families Exxon et al. didn't donate a drop.

Ada  posted on  2019-02-23   12:51:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Ada (#4)

Venezuela donated free oil to thousands of poor US families

I read that article. It says the fuel oil sent by Venezuela was sold at 40% discount to poor families. That pretty much pays for the cost of distribution. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2019-02-23   13:01:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Ada (#4) (Edited)

Easy to forget that Venezuela donated free oil to thousands of poor US families Exxon et al. didn't donate a drop.

Thanks for the reminder about Venezuela's kind and generous gifts to help America's poor through the winters - and also for the notification about Exxon's Grinchness et al., who didn't care if poor Americans froze.

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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC

GreyLmist  posted on  2019-02-23   18:15:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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