Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle

Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2016 at 12:31 PM | Joshua Partlow and Mariana Zuñiga

[Olog-hai]

In the darkness the warehouse looks like any other, a metal-roofed hangar next to a clattering overpass, with homeless people sleeping nearby in the shadows.

But inside, workers quietly unload black plastic crates filled with merchandise so valuable that mobs have looted delivery vehicles, shot up the windshields of trucks and hurled a rock into one driver’s eye. Soldiers and police milling around the loading depots give this neighborhood the feel of a military garrison. […]

The fight for food has begun in Venezuela. On any day, in cities across this increasingly desperate nation, crowds form to sack supermarkets. Protesters take to the streets to decry the skyrocketing prices and dwindling supplies of basic goods. The wealthy improvise, some shopping online for food that arrives from Miami. Middle-class families make do with less: coffee without milk, sardines instead of beef, two daily meals instead of three. The poor are stripping mangoes off the trees and struggling to survive. …

[polymuser]

I don’t know Venezuela.
Must be a bunch of capitalist, self-ruled Amish!

[Del Rapier]

My guess at this time Venezuela would look disease ridden,broken down with no real trade or communication. It is what these people have chosen. There is no easy way out of this abyss.