Posted on 11/14/2014 5:01:29 AM PST by C19fan
The sprawling street market that radiates outward from the metro station in Petare, Caracas’s largest slum, is the retail equivalent of an anti-Target.
There’s no organization to it. Tube socks and school supplies are sold beside giant pyramids of pineapple and piled yucca. Leopard-print hot pants stretch over mannequin buttocks next to the stinky stalls of fishmongers.
The bazaar was known until this month as one of the city’s biggest open-air black markets, the place to find all the scarce items that shoppers must queue up for hours to get in supermarkets, or can’t find at all. Earlier this year, toilet paper and cornmeal were scarce; lately it’s diapers and deodorant that have “gotten lost,” as Venezuelans say.
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We have friends...Colombians , that are “stuck” there.
Commies, socialist, nazis and registered Democrats are all the same!
Those “Black Markets are really “show & tell” economics lessons. Too bad the locals can’t/won’t learn from them.
Time to start cigar boats full of toilet paper!
It doesn’t matter what the map looks like when 60 percent of the elected Republicans, including Tea Party candidates become effectively Democrats when they get to Washington. Remember, when Boehner was first elected he was quite the COnservative. Now he acts as an agent of the DNC.
As you know I am as harsh a critic of Boehner as anyone on FR.
But there are light years between his positions and Nicholas Maduro’s.
I do think what you are seeing in Venezuela might be happening here in a decade with the Fake White Indian at the helm.
When you view the goings on through the end of a paper towel tube, you don’t see reality.
Nice another worker’s paradise... when will we have black markets here for legal goods?
They have thoroughly wrecked the economy, and every day they announce new programs and moves to make things worse.
Corruption is not an anomaly in centralized economies, it is a necessary feature. It is what keeps them from grinding to a halt.
toilets, freon, and lightbulbs
Typical Wapo writer/communist. Unless it's centrally planned it cannot be working. People can self-organize outside of any central planning and here's the proof.
Government is failing, but the market endures and cures.
Hyperbole much?
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