Venezuela: Condones Para Pocos

[Matt84]

Some more good news from the land of 21c Socialism

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/the-755-condom-is-the-latest-indignity-in-venezuela

Venezuelans who already must line up for hours to buy chicken, sugar, medicines and other basic products in short supply now face a new indignity: Condoms are hard to find and nearly impossible to afford.
“The country is so messed up that now we have to wait in line even to have sex,” lamented Jonatan Montilla, a 31-year-old advertising company art director. “This is a new low.”
A collapse in oil prices has deepened shortages of consumer products from diapers to deodorant in the OPEC country that imports most of what it consumes, with crude exports accounting for about 95 percent of its foreign currency earnings. As the price the country receives for its oil exports fell 60 percent in the past seven months, the economy is being pushed to the brink with a three-in-four chance of default in the next 12 months if oil prices don’t recover.

The impact of reduced access to contraceptives is far graver than frustration over failed hookups. Venezuela has one of South America’s highest rates of HIV infection and teenage pregnancy. Abortion is illegal.
“Without condoms we can’t do anything,” Jhonatan Rodriguez, general director at the not-for-profit health group StopVIH, said by phone Jan. 28 from Venezuela’s Margarita Island. “This shortage threatens all the prevention programs we have been working on across the country.”

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[Pensador]

Some more good news from the land of 21c Socialism

http://www.bloomberg...ty-in-venezuela


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Oh it gets much better they are so ignorant they are dying for the revolution without even a fight now. Cancer patients cannot get meds children, mothers, fathers etc dropping like flies. People with heart conditions.. no meds you die.

Viva la revolution!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2952542/Desperate-patients-forced-beg-medicine-Twitter-Venezuela-crumbling-economy-left-country-unable-import-medical-supplies.html

The revolution from HELL that is.

 

[Matiasba]

maybe you are missing something pensador...

 

[ghost]

maybe you are missing something pensador...

And what exactly is that?

 

[Matiasba]

And what exactly is that?

I dont know, but if some government as drastic as is Chavez/Maduro gets elected over and over and over during the past 17 years, winning every election you can have, making deep changes in society, maybe, just maybe, there is something good being done by them. You have to justify the enormous support they have in votes, explaining without the "they are all ignorant" cliche.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Some more good news from the land of 21c Socialism

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/the-755-condom-is-the-latest-indignity-in-venezuela


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This is not "socialism." It is airheaded improvisation, differing from its Argentine counterpart only in degree.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I dont know, but if some government as drastic as is Chavez/Maduro gets elected over and over and over during the past 17 years, winning every election you can have, making deep changes in society, maybe, just maybe, there is something good being done by them. You have to justify the enormous support they have in votes, explaining without the "they are all ignorant" cliche.

It means a polarized, dysfunctional political system ruled by demagoguery. Argentina's been that way for some time, but not quite so acutely.

 

[Rich One]

I dont know, but if some government as drastic as is Chavez/Maduro gets elected over and over and over during the past 17 years, winning every election you can have, making deep changes in society, maybe, just maybe, there is something good being done by them. You have to justify the enormous support they have in votes, explaining without the "they are all ignorant" cliche.

Maduro was elected by a very Small margin and many claim it was electoral fraud...!

 

[Matiasba]

there were A LOT of international viewers. Gigantiicly controlled elections.

 

[Rich One]

there were A LOT of international viewers. Gigantiicly controlled elections.

Maybe but the opposition asked for a vote x vote count...? it was denied by the electorate tribunal...!!