Apparently, toilet paper, diapers, and fruit juice are so scarce, they've turned into a coveted form of contraband in Venezuela, a nation benefiting from $100/barrel oil with some of the greatest pulpwood forests and opportunities for orchards in the world. They can't afford diapers or fruit juice, but they can apparently bankroll another bankrupt state, Cuba.
Where, of course, you can either eat rice or cigars, I guess, but you'll be lucky to get much else.
One week later
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As things were happening last week, I wrote a post below that is likely
wrong. We know more now. Two things have become clear this week:
1) The local ap...
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