Queues, shortages hit Venezuela's homeless and hungry

[Bacchus4.0]

http://news.yahoo.com/queues-shortages-hit-venezuelas-homeless-hungry-113232960--business.html

CARACAS (Reuters) - Huge queues at supermarkets and shortages of basic products have become the norm in Venezuela over the last year - and the most needy are increasingly at the sharp edge.

Workers at soup kitchens for the homeless and hungry face an ever-more difficult task to find rice, lentils, flour and other staples to provide a free daily hot meal.

"I queue for hours every day because you can only get one thing one day, another the next," said Fernanda Bolivar, 54, who has worked for 11 years at the church-supported "Mother Teresa" soup kitchen in a back-street of downtown Caracas.

"The situation's got terrible in the last year," she said, in a dingy kitchen at the center named for the Roman Catholic nun who helped the poor and dying in India.

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Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro's government say the queues are a national embarrassment and symbol of failed socialist economics similar to the old Soviet Union.

[IronGate]

1. But I thought, according to a member here,

that the poor are better off now under the chavistas?

So, how can this article be true?
Sarcasm implied.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. thats just what they want to believe, there has to be some benefit of chavismo doesn't there?

besides the benefits to corrupt chavistas pillaging and abusing the country for their own ambitions.