The rest of the people lack bread due to socialism. I'm sure bakers would love to sell more. Tasking the people with bread supplies is what happened in the USSR too. The more involved government gets, including business, the worse it gets.
Didn´t you read? The private bakeries refused to make bread and the government ordered them to make bread.
"because of socialism" is the most featureless claim that you can make.
Millions, billions in the world lack of food because of capitalism and you ignore it.
I said they would love to sell more bread, not just bake more bread. Capitalism works so you are spouting nonsense. Government involvement in business is how business becomes corrupt. Then it's crony capitalism, not free market capitalism.
They are not ordered to give the bread away, just to make enough bread. That they have to be ordered is just another poof for that the market must be regulated.
Your story makes no sense. There's definitely more to it. The people are broke, what do they buy the bread with?
The people are not broke. The prices are manipulated. Sure, the low oil prices hit the country hard but it is recovering. What really is a problem is the US-backed opposition´s criminal actions.
"Disgruntled customers, empty store shelves, long supermarket lines. These are the images that mainstream U.S. media typically feature in their coverage of Venezuela’s ongoing food crisis.
U.S. media outlets publish stories blaming Venezuela’s food crisis on the socialist government almost daily. Today isn’t any different.These images are usually accompanied by sarcastic headlines like Forbes’ “Venezuela Discovers the Perfect Weight Loss Diet” and the Cato Institute’s “Hunger Is in Retreat, But Not in Socialist Venezuela.”
A new study released by researchers from three Venezuelan universities reported that nearly 75 percent of the population lost an average of 19 pounds in 2016 for lack of food. The report, titled, “2016 Living Conditions Survey,” added that about 32.5 percent of Venezuelans eat only once or twice a day, compared to 11.3 percent last year.
Moreover, 93.3 percent told the researchers that their income was not enough to cover their food needs.
The facts are clear — Venezuela does have a food crisis. Mainstream U.S. media, however, blames the socialist government that has radically improved the country’s standard of living instead of right-wing U.S.-backed opposition forces intentionally sabotaging the economy.
Since the early 2000s, supermarket owners affiliated with Venezuela’s opposition have been purposefully hoarding food products so they can resell them at higher prices and make large profits. Food importing companies owned by the country’s wealthy right-wing elite are also manipulating import figures to raise prices.
In 2013, former Venezuelan Central Bank chief Edmee Betancourt reported that the country lost between US$15 and $20 billion dollars the previous year through such fraudulent import deals.
It doesn’t stop there.
Last year, over 750 opposition-controlled offshore companies linked to the Panama Papers scandal were accused of purposely redirecting Venezuelan imports of raw food materials from the government to the private sector. Many of these companies sell their products to private companies in Colombia, which resell them to Venezuelans living close to Colombia.
Reuters admitted in 2014 that Venezuelan opposition members living in border states are shipping low-cost foodstuffs provided by the Venezuelan government into Colombia for profit.“Selling contraband is a serious problem. People here are taking large quantities of products meant for Venezuelans and selling them in Colombia,” Valencia resident Francisco Luzon told Al Jazeera in a 2014 interview.
Overall, Venezuela’s millionaire opposition are profiting handsomely from the country’s food crisis while blaming it on the socialist government that’s trying to eliminate it."
Blaming Socialism, US Media Distorts Venezuela’s Food Crisis
