Venezuela to install finger scanners to tackle shortages
Source: Yahoo
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Venezuela will begin installing some 20,000 fingerprint scanners at supermarkets nationwide in a bid to stamp out hoarding and panic buying, which the government blames for long lines and widespread shortages of basic goods.
The oil-rich nation has been selectively rolling out the rationing system for months at state-run supermarkets along the western border with Colombia, where smuggling of price-controlled goods is a major problem.
On Saturday, President Nicolas Maduro said that seven large private retail chains had voluntarily agreed to install the scanners.
"I ask for the the comprehension of all of Venezuela, to understand this problem, because there is a lot of manipulation taking place," Maduro said at the inauguration of a state-run supermarket.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-install-finger-scanners-tackle-shortages-225935524.html
The Saturday Night Live skit continues. Sadly, the people of VZ continue to pay the price until the next elections.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)propaganda that shortages are caused by manipulation (hoarding). He isn't even rearranging the deck chairs on Titanic any more- he's just strolling the deck, whistling and blaming the ever-increasing slope on "outside forces". He'll never see it coming when Diosdado and company gently remove him.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)Venezuelans overwhelmingly Chavistas, poll finds
Saturday, March 7, 2015
By Lucas Koerner
A new poll released by International Consulting Services, featured several results that suggest Chavismo the political project pushed by late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez continues to be the preferred political option for the country.
The poll, carried out on the eve of the second anniversary of the death of Chavez's death on March 5, found 62% of Venezuelans consider themselves Chavistas partisans
of the ideals of the late Venezuelan leader.
In other results, about 57% of Venezuelans have confidence that the Chavista government of President Nicolas Maduro will improve the economy.
In the midst of an economic crisis triggered by crashing oil prices and economic war in which basic goods remain scarce, only a quarter of Venezuelans regard scarcities as the country's biggest problem.
This finding contradicts the image of widespread hunger and desperation among Venezuelans projected by the international media.
More:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58452
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Fail.
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(11,841 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Scan your finger...need more ass wipe!
Ah HA!
NONE FOR YOU WE SAID ONE SQUARE A DAY! FOLD IT TWICE YOU CAN USE IT THREE TIMES!
ripcord
(5,404 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)There seem to be shortages of medicines and so forth, so I am not convinced that smuggling is all the problem.
http://www.local10.com/news/hospitals-in-venezuela-virtually-closed-for-lack-of-materials/27610660
Monday, Venezuelan Health Minister Francisco Armada admitted there are medicine supply problems and some medicines cannot be found. However, he said that these flaws will be decided in a "very short term," following the recent granting of currency to companies in the medical sector for the purchase of medicines.