Friday, February 09, 2007

Where's the Beef???















A supermarket worker explains to a customer that their meat section is out of beef and chicken in Caracas, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. President Hugo Chavez's administration blames the scarcity of basic food products on unscrupulous speculators and government opponents, but industry officials blame government price controls which they say are strangling profits and causing distortions in the market. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)

Read the article at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070208/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_food_crunch

3 comments:

Unknown said...

The truth about Hugo is starting to show!

Anonymous said...

Me thinks I smell a skunk!!

And it is only a matter of time until those about the skunk start smelling, too!!

Praying you get some identifiable protien soon!

Caraqueña said...

It's been "showing" for quite a while, Pam! Didn't have us fooled for a moment--the Cuban Paradise, here we come!