'We are like a bomb': food riots show Venezuela crisis has gone beyond politics

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/venezuela-breaking-point-food-shortages-protests-maduro

Word had spread that a delivery of poultry meat was due at the Central Madeirense supermarket, and long before dawn a queue of shoppers was snaking around the block.

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At about 6.30, two trucks finally drew up outside the store, but before the drivers could start to unload, national guardsmen told them to drive on.
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Perhaps it was not surprising that the mood outside the supermarket quickly turned ugly: frustration turned to despair, anger to violence. Before long, the incident on Tuesday had escalated.

Mobs tried to loot several bakeries and delis and another food delivery truck.

The unrest soon spread throughout this city of 200,000 just outside the capital, Caracas. Protesters shouted “We want food” as they blocked intersections with burning tyres and clashed with security forces.

[scscholar]

1. Went there last week, and the greedy corporations...

have really screwed things up. I was in a nicer area of Caracas so the only shortage I saw was TP. My coworker there said yesterday that a group of former HP workers broke into their office and stole their computers so they can't work now. They're in the same building with a couple of banks, and he said the banks have now ordered their employees loot.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Where did you eat? the state run restaurants? nt

[scscholar]

3. Was there doing a business process and bookkeeping audit for the owner of several restaurants

Food wasn't a problem!