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Question for you - to what extent does the Venezuelan gov. interfere and control the means of production and distribution of everyday household products? When

• gassius 11y ago
  Right now, interferes a lot, but as far as control goes, nobody is controlling anything. Since middle of last year, they started meddling with how supermarkets sells to customers, for example, you can go to a supermarket only two days a week to buy "price regulated products" which are every simple thing like pasta, milk, flour, meat, cleansing products, soap, shampoo etc. Also they are trying to implement a biometric system so you can buy only certain number of such products once you are validated with your fingerprints. But of course they have botcheted that as well, so now you are fingerprinted but on the 2 days a week your are allowed to go, is a nightmare. Probably the most of Venezuelan expats in Miami are antichavistas, but I tell you one thing, nothing like this happened while Chavez was alive. OTOH, it seems obvious that the problems of today are rooted in some of Chavez's policies.