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Venezuela "nationalizes" toilet paper company September 21, 2013 1:55 pm TB

Here.

This is one of multiple stories along these same lines, including blackouts, industrial failures, widespread shortages, inflation in the 45 percent range, oil production at its lowest since 1990, and economic stagnation.

It’s just the funniest and most symbolic.

There is a very specific set of ideas and policies that can do this to a nation that contains some of the largest oil and gas reserves on the planet. Yet they will keep rebuilding this bridge exactly the same way, over and over again.

  • Guatemala has the opposite strategy in place. by alcaray 2013-09-21 18:21:35

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