Food Rationing in Socialist Venezuela Leads to Mob Fighting Over Milk | FrontPage Magazine

Venezuela’s powdered milk crisis has a long wacky history full of price control problems. Chavez and his even loonier successor Maduro have tried to set price controls for powdered milk.

Unfortunately neighboring Columbia would love to buy all of Venezuela’s powdered milk at real market prices leading Chavez to denounce dairy companies that sell milk abroad as “traitors”.

Maduro launched raids against “milk hoarders” confiscating milk for the people leading to absurd mob scenes like these with only one can to a person. (Anything else would be hoarding.)

Here’s an account of what it’s like to try and buy milk in Venezuela. Any resemblance to the Soviet Union is not accidental.

Welcome to Socialism. If you like your powdered milk, get ready to take one can of it home. If you can find.

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Food Rationing in Socialist Venezuela Leads to Mob Fighting Over Milk | FrontPage Magazine