TalCual: Venezuelan Government Is Fresh Out of Toilet Paper
The country is torn between the claws of a paradox. It is something inexplicable, in light of reason. If there is enough money to buy stuff, as much locally as abroad, why toilet paper, for example, as indispensable as food, has suddenly become nearly a luxury item?
The country is torn between the claws of a paradox. It is literally being strangled by a flurry of petrodollars spilled all over it, which leads us to guess there is an abundant supply of goods and yet, at the same time, a significant shortage of food products in particular.
It is something inexplicable, in light of reason.
If there is enough money to buy stuff, as much locally as abroad, why toilet paper, for example, as indispensable as food, has suddenly become nearly a luxury item? When travelling abroad, Venezuelans come back home fully loaded with packs of toilet paper.
But the toilet paper shortage is not limited to that very particular sphere: The paper to make newspapers also seems it won’t last long in this country.
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