Venezuela's Economic Crisis Has Gotten So Bad, Hotels Are Asking Guests to Bring Their Own Toilet Pa

[Bacchus4.0]

Source: Cosmopolitan

Venezuela's paper goods shortage has worsened to the point that some hotels are now asking guests to bring their own toilet paper and soap, Fusion reports.

Bigger hotels are able to circumvent product shortages by buying things like coffee, sugar, toilet paper, and soap from black market smugglers, but smaller, family-run places often can't afford that.

"It's an extreme situation," Xinia Camacho, owner of a 20-room boutique hotel in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada national park, told Fusion. "For over a year we haven't had toilet paper, soap, any kind of milk, coffee or sugar. So we have to tell our guests to come prepared."

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"In the black market you have to pay 110 bolivares [$0.50] for a roll of toilet paper that usually costs 17 bolivares [$ 0.08] in the supermarket," she said. "We don't want to participate in the corruption of the black market, and I don't have four hours a day to line up for toilet paper at a supermarket." So, she says she's been asking guests to come with their own toilet paper since December.


Read more: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a38555/venezuela-economic-shortage/

[Fred Sanders]

1. Breaking News??? Or "breaking" news?

Cosmo also has an interesting article in their front page:

'10 Things You Thought You Could Never Wear — But Totally Should'

I am not making that up.

Cosmopolitan: The Women's Magazine for Fashion, Sex Advice, Dating....and International Politics.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. I think you're stretching the meaning of Late Breaking News.

CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times...and Cosmopolitan?

I'm waiting for your LBN post on Cosmo's latest sex tips for women.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Any even quasi-credible sources for bashing the Venezuelan Revolution are drying up?

[Bacchus4.0]

4. important news for all the chavistas from the US traveling to Ven for Holy Week

be prepared.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. This has to distress even the most hardcore Chavistas!

[geek tragedy]

6. Cosmo? nt

[seveneyes]

7. Hotel rooms imply visitors

Who, in their right mind would be visiting such a place at this time?

[brooklynite]

8. All those CIA agents have to stay somewhere.....

[joshcryer]

9. Holy Week / Easter

Pretty big deal in Latin America.

[JackRiddler]

10. 10 ways to great orgasms.

Anti-Venezuela propaganda bullshit stories in Cosmopolitan are not breaking news. This is a very obvious abuse by the Venezuela haters.

[GGJohn]

11. Hmmmmm.

I notice not one comment so far is disputing this story.
Very telling.

[Zorra]

12. Over 5 Million Venezuelans Sign Letter Urging Repeal of Obama's Executive Order

Caracas, March 30, 2015 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Over 5 million Venezuelans have voiced their opposition to the Executive Order issued by the White House on March 9, which brands Venezuela an "unusual and extraordinary threat" and imposes new sanctions.

Over the past week, millions of Venezuelans have mobilized in a nationwide petition drive, signing their names to an open letter addressed to U.S. President Barack Obama urging him to immediately repeal the executive order.

In response to President Maduro's call for 10 million signatures, the grassroots initiative has taken off dramatically over the past week with armies of volunteers manning over 760 sign-up points in public squares throughout the nation as well as going door to door in order to reach those with special needs.

President Nicolas Maduro has characterized this effort as an "emphatic success" and called for it to continue during Holy Week vacations. It is hoped that Venezuelans will continue pledging their signatures from "highways, beaches, and mountains" in a show of national unity in the face of U.S. aggression.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11301

[Marksman_91]

13. Yipeee! I'm sure those 10 million signatures are going to fix Venezuela's problems now :)

That'll show mean ol' Obama not to mess with Venezuela! Once he gets the news that 10 million signed, he'll waive off the decree, and all of Venezuela's problems like its out-of-control inflation, crime rate, food shortages, increasing poverty and so on will disappear in no time!

[Judi Lynn]

14. The worst that could happen is that Venezuela could become a loathesome for the poor as it was

when the filthy oligarchy controlled it, and President Carlos Andres Perez sent his military into the barrios to murder Venezuelan poor people when they rioted after he increased the cost of their oil and their mass transportation, etc., etc., etc. so high they could not begin to cover all their expenses for their most meager lives.

The military slaughtered so many of the poor, which the oligarchy STILL claims they had coming, that they even had to use bull dozers to push them into mass graves.

Carlos Andres Perez remained a huge fave to the Venezuelan elite a-holes until he died of old age, after claiming the opposition should have shot Chavez down in the street like a dog. Chavez: the elected president the right-wing idiots in Venezuela called an "ape" even on tv programs, and mocked relentlessly.

The Venezuelan racist elites are in no way decent people. The population does NOT want them back in power again. That page was turned for them in 1989 when Carlos Andres Perez murdered innocent poor people during "El Caracazo Massacre."

[Marksman_91]

15. Seems like it's well on the way to that again

With the recent purchase of more military hardware, it seems Maduro's preparing for the worst when they finally decide to increase has prices again. That's basically what set off el Caracazo. Don't think his less than 25% approval rating is gonna help him much either.

[Bacchus4.0]

18. Perez was a socialist like Chavez, both have been disasters for the country

http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/12/30/en_ing_esp_former-venezuelan-pr_30A4913611

The Committee of the Socialist International for Latin America and the Caribbean regretted the death of Carlos Andrés Pérez, who was vice president of the Socialist International.

The president of the regional body and former president of Panama, Martín Torrijos, said that "by supporting the Sandinista revolution, the Panamanian demands in the struggle for the elimination of a foreign colonial enclave and the return of the Canal," among other significant regional causes, Pérez showed his Latin Americanist vocation.

The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) conveyed its condolences to the family of Pérez, whom they described as a key person "in the history of the 20th century in Latin America and of the democratic socialism in America and the world."

In a statement, the party of Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said that Carlos Andres Pérez must be paid tribute for his "significant service to democracy and Venezuela," and for his very important contribution "to strengthening the Socialist International," Efe reported.

[Fumesucker]

16. America's economic crises has gotten so bad schools are asking students to bring their own TP

Interesting how you can make things look even more horrible than they are by cherry picking facts, isn't it?

[Adrahil]

17. America's fault.

It's gotta be. It's can't be that incompetent boob Maduro.