Submitted by John Farmer
It was only a few months back when the sh…….t hit the fan and the Maduro Government in Venezuela imported Fifty (50) million rolls of toilet paper as there was a terrible shortage of this item in the country. No rolls of this commodity could be found on the supermarket shelves, however, the Venezuelan public being very innovative and resourceful decided to use old newspapers to fix this inconvenience. The shortage was simply due to the following. The Maduro government did not supply the necessary U.S. dollars to the paper manufacturing plant in order for this company to import the necessary raw material to produce the toilet paper rolls. Then the government blamed the capitalistic owners of the Company for causing the shortage to the people of the Bolivian Revolution and Maduro decided to nationalize the company. See how easy it is to take over a company in Venezuela when you and you alone are the law. Sorry, I forgot – Venezuela is supposed to be democratically ruled, isn’t it?!
Maybe I should explain here that all dollars needed for the importation of any commodity to Venezuela, such as the raw material (not available) in Venezuela, needed to manufacture a product, can only be applied for and bought through the government. So if the government declines your application for the purchase of dollars to import the raw material needed to keep your production line going (for example, political reasons) you are left with no other alternative but to close your doors.
Well I thought that was the end of the paper problem in Venezuela. Maduro assured his disciples and followers that he had fixed the rather embarrassing household dilemma threatening the country at that time and that he would not hesitate to solve any future capitalistic threat from the oligarchy in similar manner.
Lo and Behold! I tuned in to CNN (espanol) last tonight to hear the commentator state that fifty (52) TONS of NEWSPRINT PAPER is on the way to Venezuela from Colombia. This is being trucked at this very moment to three of the largest daily newspaper companies, El National, El Universal and another. It was obvious to me what the problem was. It doesn’t take anyone even with a single-celled brain, who is near illiterate or a sycophant, (hello Pachamama!) to solve such a simple problem. I figured that the Venezuelans had become too enthusiastic with the use of the newsprint paper for their normal morning bathroom chores and this had caused the new crisis and shortage of newsprint paper which meant that the Daily Newspaper firms had had to reduce the size of their daily newspapers from, as in the case of El Universal, a 48 page read to just a few pages. Well I was wrong! Same old, same old! The Maduro regime once again would not supply the US dollars needed by the private newspaper companies to buy the raw material rolls of paper to print their news on. So not only has the Maduro government censored these newspaper companies preventing them from printing any news considered detrimental to the regime, but at the same time Maduro was cutting off their lifeline. Could it have meant another forced take over? Not to worry,……Colombia comes to the rescue and is trucking 52 tons of newsprint paper to the private Venezuela Newspaper companies. What will happen now? Will these trucks with 52 tons of newsprint rolls be stopped from reaching their destination or will they be confiscated by the Maduro regime and turned into toilet paper rolls. If this does happen I am sure the Sh….t will really hit the fan and it will become an international incident.
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