THANK YOU! .. two excellent articles .. mixed results as you said clearly and honestly earlier .. yes, FACTS ARE SACRED .. and cannot be denied .. c'mon n48... and NH .. where are you guys on the FACTS .. they are better than any i found .. one other ..
3 September 2013 Last updated at 23:33 GMT
Could smuggling be to blame for Venezuela's food shortages?
By Ed Butler BBC News, Maracaibo
Queue outside a Maracaibo supermarket in Venezuela Queues for price-capped foods snake around many a supermarket in Maracaibo
At 09:00 outside a downtown supermarket in Maracaibo, Venezuela, the temperatures are already stiflingly hot - close to 40C (104F) in the shade, if you can find any shade.
I am at the back of a line of some 200 members of the Guajiro indigenous group, poor men and women who have travelled many miles from their homes in the country or the city's outer shanty towns, and have waited here for up to five hours.
It is a pathetic sight, as they shelter under shawls waiting to buy their allotted ration of price-capped foods like rice, sugar, chicken, wheat, and corn flour - goods that have become increasingly scarce as shortages grip many regions of Venezuela.
But, if you believe what some are telling me here, these poor villagers may themselves be the cause of the nation's woes.
"Eighty per cent of these people are smugglers," one shopper, Maigualita Barallt, says quietly, shaking her head.
.. of course many of the poor become smugglers .. lol .. to put that in some perspective the Rogers family of Rogers Golden Syrup fame have? a walled city block mansion in Vancouver (i showed it to a friend 50+ years ago, and guess it must be still there) .. how did they make many of their millions? .. yup, by smuggling booze into the US during your prohibition years .. of course many poor would take smuggling up, too .. many rich are hiring the poor to smuggle today .. for sure ..
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